Question

Juli had 5 1/3 metres of ribbon. She used 1/4 of it to wrap a present and cut the remaining ribbon into 1/4 metre long pieces. How many pieces did she get?

Answer 1

Juli used 1 1/3 meters of the ribbon to wrap the present. She will get 16 pieces of 1/4 meter long ribbon from the remaining ribbon.

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve this problem, we can first determine how much ribbon Juli used to wrap the present. She used 1/4 of the total ribbon. Since 5 1/3 is the same as 16/3, we can find 1/4 of 16/3 by multiplying the two fractions together. 1/4 * 16/3 = 16/12 = 4/3. This means that Juli used 4/3 or 1 1/3 meters of ribbon for the present.

To find out how many 1/4 meter pieces Juli can cut from the remaining ribbon, we need to subtract 1 1/3 meters (or 4/3 meters) from the total length of 5 1/3 meters. 5 1/3 - 4/3 = 16/3 - 4/3 = 12/3 = 4 meters.

Since Juli is cutting the ribbon into 1/4 meter pieces, we can divide the remaining length of 4 meters by 1/4 to find out how many pieces she will get. 4 / 1/4 = 4 * 4 = 16 pieces. Therefore, Juli will get 16 pieces of 1/4 meter long ribbon.