Question

A ladder is 110 inches tall. How tall is it in feet and inches?

Answer 1

Hint: Here, this question belongs to the conversion topic that is we have to convert the unit from one form to another. Here we have to convert the unit inches to the unit feet as we know that 1 feet is equal to 12 inches. So we use simple arithmetic operations and find the solution.

Complete step-by-step solution:
The feet and inches are the units to measure the length quantities.
 Length is the measurement of the distance between two points, two things or two places. To measure length, a unit of measurement is used. There are two different systems for measuring: customary and metric. This concept is about Customary Units of measurement.
The most common customary units of measurement are the inch, the feet, the yard and the mile
Here, first we have to convert the unit from the inches to the feet.
Then, each feet is 12 inches
therefore we have
\[
  1feet = 12inches \\
  xfeet = 110inches \\
 \]
On cross multiplying
\[ \Rightarrow 110 = 12x\]
To convert 110 inches into a feet, we divide the 110 by 12.
\[ \Rightarrow x = \dfrac{{110}}{{12}}\] inches

Therefore the 110 inches is equal to 9 feet 2 inches.
Hence the 110 inches is equal to 9 feet 2 inches.

Note: We have different units for solid quantity, liquid quantity and gaseous quantity. Every quantity has a measurement unit from the low quantity to the high quantity. While converting the unit of a quantity from one form to another form we have standard value. By multiplying or dividing we can convert the unit of the quantity. We have a different system of measurement of a quantity.