You are a carpenter and have a 3\16 inch piece of wood and a 5/16 inch piece of wood. if you glue the pieces together, what is the new measurement of the combined piece of wood in its lowest form? what is the answer in fractions in the simplest form in inches

Ian is in training for a national hot dog eating contest on the 4th of july. on his first day of training, he eats 4 hot dogs. each day, he plans to eat 110% of the number of hot dogs he ate the previous day. write an explicit formula that could be used to find the number of hot dogs ian will eat on any particular day.