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You could get a row of 16 across the sheet, and you could get 96 rows like that one. Now you calculate how many that would be.
that depends when you say Cut how are you cutting it? you have to account for something called curf (spelling) which is the material that the saw blade takes so if your saw blade is 1/8 an inch thick then you loose a lot of material to shavings etc so how thick is your blade?
It depends on whether this is a mathematics question or a real one that involves actually doing the work. If it's math, then you would cut the piece into 96 1/8 strips and then chop them into 16 3/4 pieces or vice versa, it doesn't matter which you do first. 96 x 16 = 1536. There are 8 strips 1/8 wide in each inch and there are 12 inches in your sheet so 8 x 12 = 96. 12 divided by 3/4 = 16. 96 x 16 = 1536. If this is a real activity, then it depends on the type of plastic you're using and whether you can cut it with a knife or paper cutter because if it's plexiglass you have to use a saw of some sort and you can lose up to 1/8 for each cut due to the teeth of the saw blade. Therefore you would have approximately half as many finished pieces, and you would probably lose half of those because they'd fly all over the shop. Plexiglas is also prone to static electricity and would attract all the dust in the environment and be kind of a beast to do without special acrylic blades. Thin sheets of film could be done with scissors or a paper cutter.
