I love math too. And boy howdy is it handy around here.

Yeah! Think how much more fun we would have had with math if they had taught us some practical "make something using it" lessons, instead of those AWFUL, pointless story problems <g>.
SALUTE to all of you who figured out how to come up with 7/8 of a yard ... I get all weirded out with tenths of a foot, too ... all I can figure is: someone who is asking for tenths of a foot don 't really know how big a foot is, anyway. <<wave> I LOVE math because it does make good sense, but ONLY to a point <g>

yes, 36 times 7 divided by 8 will work.

36 times 7 divided by 8 IS work!! :lol: I use decimals instead of fractions, having learned the decimal equivalents for eighths back in the dark ages when stock prices were given in eighths of a dollar.

I don't think its work at all..I love math.

oh, my goodness! 1/8 in dollars, too???? I am so fond of saying: Figures don't lie, but liars figure ... darn!
if you get the fractions/decimals small enough, you can jury rig anything! LOL <wave>
I LOVE math ... :roll: I really do! I can feel the desire to start pushing a pencil and dinking around with numbers, but I must control myself and sew something or fold laundry or something!
this is all so cool to watch the math geniuses among us strutting their stuff ... I am in awe, even if I may have to give up one of my favorites maxims of life <wave>