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A piece of wire 3/8 m long is to be cut into 12 pieces of the same length. what is the length of each piece? Each piece is ____ m long

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Given,

Length of the wire, L=3/8 m

Its cut into 12pieces.

Thus length of one piece is:


l=(3)/(8)m*(1)/(12)=(1)/(32)m=0.031m

The answer is:

Each piece is 0.031 m long.

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