Question

shauntay used identical plastic bears to measure the length of a rope and found that the rope was 36 bears long. next, shauntay will measure the length of the rope using identical plastic giraffes. shauntay found that 4 bears are as long as 3 giraffes. how many giraffes long will the rope be? explain your reasoning clearly and in detail

Answer 1

To find the length of the rope in giraffes, we need to convert the length in bears to the length in giraffes. We can do this by using the conversion factor that Shauntay found, which is 4 bears are as long as 3 giraffes.

Let's call the length of the rope in giraffes "x". Then we can write the following equation to convert from the length in bears to the length in giraffes:

x = (36 bears) * (3 giraffes / 4 bears)

To simplify the equation, we can simplify the conversion factor:

x = (36 bears) * (3/4) * (1 giraffe / 1 bear)

x = 27 giraffes

So, the rope is 27 giraffes long