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Sheila is going to divide a 36 inch piece of ribbon into 5 equal pieces she says each piece will be 7 inches long what is Sheila’s error
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Sheila is going to divide a 36 inch piece of ribbon into 5 equal pieces she says each piece will be 7 inches long what is Sheila’s error

User Jerry Gao
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5x7=35 the pieces won't be 7 inches long
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36 divided by 5 is 7.2 and not 7. Sheila rounded to the nearest whole number but she wasn't supposed to.
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