Question
The diagrams (not drawn to scale) show a rectangular cardboard V and a square W. Ethan cut as many squares W as he could from rectangular cardboard V. The remaining part of the rectangular cardboard V is shown in Figure 1.
  1. What is the length of XY as shown in Figure 1?
  2. What is the greatest number of squares W that Ethan could cut from a rectangular cardboard V?
3 m
(a)

Click button first when a symbol is required. X

(b)

Click button first when a symbol is required. X

The diagrams (not drawn to scale) show a rectangular cardboard V and a square W. Ethan cut as many squares W as he could from rectangular cardboard V. The remaining part of the rectangular cardboard V is shown in Figure 1.
  1. What is the length of XY as shown in Figure 1?
  2. What is the greatest number of squares W that Ethan could cut from a rectangular cardboard V?