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yuri has a rope 12 meters long. he cuts it into pieces that are each 2 meters long. what fraction of the rope is one piece? Draw a picture
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yuri has a rope 12 meters long. he cuts it into pieces that are each 2 meters long. what fraction of the rope is one piece? Draw a picture

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We can turn this into a fraction by dividing 12 by 2.
12 meters / 2 meters = 6 pieces of rope at 2 meters long each.

Since we want to know what fraction of the rope it is, we divide 1 rope by 6 pieces which leaves us with the fraction 1/6
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