Question

A roll of ribbon was 12 meters long. Diego cut 9 pieces of ribbon that were 0.4 meters each to tie some presents. He then used the remaining ribbon to make some wreaths. Each wreath required 0.6 meter.

How many meters of ribbon were available for making wreaths?

_____ meters

How many wreaths could Diego make with the available ribbon?

_______wreaths

Answer 1

Work and Reasoning:
We start off with 12m
Since there are 9 ribbons each 0.4 meters you have to do 9 • 0.4. Since that is 3.6m.
To find out how much ribbon you have left you must subtract the amount he used against the amount he had to begin with.
12 - 3.6 = 8.4
To find out how many wreaths he can make, you must divide the remaining amount of ribbon he has by the 0.6 meter.
8.4 divided by 0.6 is 14.

Answer:
He can make 14 wreaths with the remaining amount of ribbon.

Answer 2

Answer: 8.4; 14.

Explanation:

To find how much ribbon we used to tie presents, we need to multiply 9 and 0.4.

9 x 0.4 = 3.6.

Diego used 3.6 meters of yard to tie some presents. We can subtract that from 12 to find how much ribbon we have left.

12 - 3.6 = 8.4.

We have 8.4 meters of ribbon to make wreaths.

Now we have to find how many wreaths we can make wiht 8.4 meters of ribbon. We know that each wreath needs 0.6, so we should divide 8.4 by 0.6 to find how many wreaths we can make.

8.4 ÷ 0.6 = 14.

Therefore, we can make 14 wreaths with the 8.4 meters of leftover ribbon.

(Part A's answer is 8.4, and Part B's answer is 14)