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sarah's craft project used pieces of yarn that are 1/8 yard long. she has a piece of ynr that is 3 yards long

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Is the question how many such pieces of yarn will she have?

We have to divide: 3 yards by 1/8th yard:

3/
(1)/(8) =3*8=24

dividing by a fraction means multiplying by its inverse!
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