Respuesta :
There are 192 inches in 16 feet. Therefore, he must vault three more inches to fully clear the bar.
Brian's bar must be 3 inches higher so he vault to go over a bar that is 16 feet high
Concept
- First we will convert feet into inches
- After converting feet into inches we will subtract the actual bar height that Brian had with the bar size which Brian needed
How to solve this problem?
The steps are as follow:
- Given bar size that Brian had which is 189 inches
- The bar size needed is 16 feet
- The feet can be converted to inches as follow:
1 feet = 12 inches
16 feet = ?
∴ 16 x 12 = 192 inches
- Inches higher require can be find out as follow:
192 - 189 = 3 inches
So, Brian's bar must be 3 inches higher so he vault to go over a bar that is 16 feet high
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