If marge has 14 2/5feet of chain and she wants to find how many 3/8 foot long pieces she can make. how many pieces will she have?

 The number of pieces is 38.

Step-by-step explanation:  Given that Marge has feet of chain that she wants to cut into foot long pieces.

We are to find the number of pieces that she will have after cutting.

Let, 'n' be the number of pieces that she can make.

Therefore, we must have

Thus, she can make 38 pieces from the chain.

the answer   is 200

step-by-step explanation:

this is a problem about poisson probabilities.   i don't know if you've

already studied poisson distributions, or if you have a place to look

to read more about the subject.  

here's how you can see a poisson distribution coming.   when there are

a lot of events that may happen at any time (or any place), and when

you're counting how many of them happen at a particular time (or a

particular place), and each event is independent of the others, then

the result is a poisson distribution.   this is roughly true for the

chocolate chips; one chip being in a cookie has only a small effect on

the probability that another chip will be in the cookie.

once you know you have a poisson distribution, you know a lot.   there

is only one parameter to a poisson distribution, so if you know the

mean, you know everything.   the form of the distribution is

  probability of n chips = {[e^(-x)]*(x^n)} / (n! )