Practice question · Numerical answer
A gallery wall is 6.0 metres long. Three works, each 1.2 metres wide, are hung with equal gaps between them and equal gaps at both ends. How wide is each gap, in metres?
Hints
- Work out how much wall the works occupy first.
- Three works leave four gaps, at each end and between each pair.
Show the answer
0.6 (answers within ±0.02 count)
Why
0.6 metres. The works take 3.6 metres, leaving 2.4 across four gaps. Counting four gaps rather than two is the step people get wrong, and it is the difference between a wall that reads as a considered sequence and one where the end works look pushed against the corners.
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