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Question: Nora needs to cut some equal pieces of yarn for her Science project. The piece of yarn she has is 67.6 inches long. Each piece of yarn must be 1.3 inches in lenght. How many pieces of yarn will Nora have.

Question: Nora needs to cut some equal pieces of yarn for her Science project. The-example-1
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Nora will have 52 pieces of yarn

Here, we want to get the number of pieces of yam

What we have to do here is to divide the length of the entire yarn by the length of the individual piece

Mathematically, we have this as;


\frac{67.6\text{ inches}}{1.3\text{ inches}}\text{ = 52}

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