Question

Saili plants $4$ saplings, in a row, in her garden.

The distance between two adjacent saplings is $\frac{3}{4}$ m.

Find the distance between the first and the last sapling.

Answer 1

From the given details, we get to know that the distance between two adjacent saplings is $\frac{3}{4}$ m & number of saplings planted by Saili in a row is $4$, where we have to determine the distance between the first and the last sapling.

Then, the number of gaps in saplings =$\frac{3}{4}\times 4=3$

∴The distance between the first and the last saplings = $3\times \frac{3}{4}=\frac{9}{4}m$

On converting the obtained improper fraction to mixed fraction we get $2\frac{1}{4}m$.

Hence, the distance between the first and the last saplings is $2\frac{1}{4}m$.