Acarpenter cuts a board into three pieces of equal and then cuts off 1/4 of one of the pieces. if the smallest board he has is 1 foot in length, what was the length of the original board?

Me its important ! marge runs an ice cream parlor. her speciality is triple chocolate sundaes.she can prepare 1 sundae every 2 minutes, and she earns $1.20 for each sundae she makes . if she just makes sundaes for a single shift of at most 4 hours and at least 2 hours , which function relates her earnings to the number of minutes she works?