Estimating Materials
Calculating Lumber
How many 2 feet 2 inch pieces can be
made from fifteen 10 foot boards?
Steps
Keystrokes
Display
Clear calculator
[On/C] [On/C]
0.
Enter board length 10 [Feet]
10
FEET
Divide by
[÷] 2 [Feet] 2 [Inch]
smaller cuts
[=]
4.615385
(or 4 whole boards)
Multiply by total number of
10 foot boards
4 [x] 15 [=]
60
(2 feet 2 inch pieces)
Estimating Bricks
How many standard bricks (3.75 inch
by 8 inch) are required for a 36.5 foot by
8 foot wall?
Steps
Keystrokes
Display
Clear calculator
[On/C] [On/C]
0.
Find brick area
3.75 [Inch] [x]
8 [Inch] [=]
30
SQ INCH
Store in memory
[M+]
M
30
SQ INCH
Find wall area
36.5 [Feet] [x]
8 [Feet] [=]
292
SQ FEET
Divide by brick area to find
number of bricks [÷] [Rcl] [M+] [=]
1401.6 (Bricks)
Add 5% spoilage
[+] 5 [%]
1471.68 (1472 Bricks)
Clear memory
[Rcl] [Rcl] [On/C] or [Set] [x]
0.
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