“Get Those Thinking Caps On” 2

So I hope you are ready for another challenge:

Rectangular cards, 2 centimetres by 3 centimetres, are cut from a rectangular sheet 2 metres by 2 metres.

What is the greatest number of cards that can be cut from the sheet?

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One Response to ““Get Those Thinking Caps On” 2”

17johnk Says:
May 26, 2010 at 6:04 pm | Log in to Reply
First, I changed 2m to 200cm. Then we have to find out how many 3cm and 2cm will fit into 200cm.
200 divided by 2 is 100 and 200 divided by 3 is 66 R2. So there can be 100 squares for 2cm and 66 squares for 3 cm.

So the answer will be 100*66=6600

ANSWER: 6600 squares