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Gabe wants to plant a tree every 3/20 of a mile along his driveway . If his driveway is 3/4 of a mile long, how many trees will he need?
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Gabe wants to plant a tree every 3/20 of a mile along his driveway . If his driveway is 3/4 of a mile long, how many trees will he need?

User Omkar Shetkar
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In order to calculate that, you need to divide, distance between two trees from the total distance.
It would be: 3/4 / 3/20
We can re-write it as:
3/4 * 20/3 = 20/4 = 5

So, Gabe needs 5 trees.

Hope it helped.

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