One cut took 10 minutes, made 2 pieces. Cutting another board twice should take 20 minutes (10 minutes per cut), making 3 pieces. It's pretty simple.
ATTEMPT TO SAVE THE TEACHER: If the board is a perfect square. You cut it,directly down the middle, in 10 minutes. You have two equal halves. If you then cut one of the new rectangles across the shortest width. Then it should only take 5 minutes. Rocket River it is quite the *****ty worded question though.
But the picture next to the question seems to suggest a different way of cutting than what you describe.
The question says 'another' board. I think Buck's probably closest. The writer might be good at math, but has never used a saw...
This sounds like one of those 'trick' math questions for those math league competitions or whatever. Your mind would jump to one conclusion if you didn't think it through. Like 'What weighs more - a pound of lead or a pound of cotton?'
It's clearly an Algebra problem, but it's sort of worded in a way that COMMON SENSE solves it instead of math: Code: 2p = 10 p = 5 3(5) = x? 15 = x Clearly, the person answering should be given credit, but my teacher brain says "where is your work showing this?" Spoiler PLUS... Look at that ****ING saw... it's not even SERRATED! It would take even us ClutchFaners for-****ing-ever to cut that dang board. FAIL.
