.An 8 1/2 sheet of paper is being cut into 1 9/16 inch strips to make a paper chain. How many strips can be made from one sheet of paper?

Given that length of the paper sheet that is being cut [tex] = 8 \frac{1}{2} [/tex]Given that length of the smaller piece of paper that is obtained after cutting the original paper [tex] = 1 \frac{9}{16} [/tex]Now we have to find how many such strips can be formed.To find that we will just divide length of the original paper sheet by the length of the new paper sheet.Number of paper strips [tex] = \frac{8\frac{1}{2}}{1\frac{9}{16}} [/tex]Number of paper strips [tex] = \frac{\frac{8*2+1}{2}}{\frac{1*16+9}{16}} [/tex]Number of paper strips [tex] = \frac{\frac{17}{2}}{\frac{25}{16}} [/tex]Number of paper strips [tex] = \frac{17}{2}*\frac{16}{25} [/tex]Number of paper strips [tex] = \frac{17*16}{2*25} [/tex]Number of paper strips [tex] = \frac{272}{50} [/tex]Number of paper strips [tex] =5.44 [/tex]Hence final answer is 5.44 strips.