Question

Vita has a pice of rope that is 5 meters long. She cuts the rope into pieces that are each 1/3 meter long. How many pieces does she cut?

Answer 1

Normally you would divide something like this by the cuts made. So if there were cuts of 2 inches on a 10 inch rope, then you should divide 10 by 2. It's the same with this:

`5/ (1)/(3) = 5*3, 15 \ pieces`
Multiply by the reciprocal when you are dividing fractions.