When building a chair, a carpenter uses 4 pounds of wood and 6 ounces of glue. if the carpenter has 6 pounds of wood and 12 ounces of glue, how many chairs will he be able to build? ( show your work.) a. five chairs b. four chairs c. three chairs d. two chairs e. one chair?

He can build ...

... min(floor((available wood)/(wood per chair)), floor((available glue)/(glue per chair)))

... = min(floor(6/4), floor(12/6))

... = min(1, 2) = 1

The carpenter can build ...

... e. one chair

The floor( ) function returns the largest integer not greater than its argument. That is, the value with the fractional part set to zero (for positive numbers).

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