Question

During a community service, 16 students clean a beach by picking up trash. The beach is 1 4/5 miles long. Each team cleans the same length of beach. What is the length of beach that each team cleans?

Answer 1

To find the length of beach each student cleans, the total beach length of 1 4/5 miles, converted to 9/5 miles, is divided by the number of students (16), resulting in each student cleaning 9/80 miles of beach.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question asks for the length of beach that each team cleans if 16 students clean a 1 4/5 miles long beach and each team cleans the same length. To calculate this, we need to divide the total length of the beach by the number of students.

First, convert 1 4/5 miles to an improper fraction: 1 4/5 = 9/5 miles.

Next, divide 9/5 miles by 16:

(9/5 miles) / 16 students = (9/5) / 16 = 9/80 miles per student

So each student cleans 9/80 miles of beach.