Question

Toni and Makayla are working on a craft project. Makayla has 3 yards of ribbon and Toni has 4 yards of ribbon. They cut all the ribbon into pieces that are 1/4 yard long. How many pieces of ribbon do they have?

Answer 1

Toni and Makayla have 16 and 12 pieces of ribbon respectively, 28 in total

Explanation:

Fractions

Toni has 4 yards of ribbon and Makayla has 3 yards of ribbon.

The ribbon is cut into pieces of 1/4 yards each.

This means that Toni has:

`\displaystyle (4)/((1)/(4))=16`

pieces of ribbon and Makayla has:

`\displaystyle (3)/((1)/(4))=12`

pieces of ribbon.

Toni and Makayla have 16 and 12 pieces of ribbon respectively, 28 in total