Question

Dash asked Lily to cut 5 equal-sized pieces of string for the holiday balloons. Lily only has 3 4/5 meters of string total. What length does each piece of cut string need to be?

Answer 1

19/25 metres

Explanation:

From the question, we are given;

Total length of the string = 3 4/5 metres

If the string is cut into 5 equal size, the length of each piece will be expressed as;

Length of each piece = Total string length/5

Length of each piece = (3 4/5)/5

Length of each piece = 19/5 ÷ 5

Length of each piece = 19/5 ×1/5

Length of each piece = 19/25 metres

Hence the length of each piece she cut is 19/25 metres