Question

Ms. McCarty uses 19 inches of wire making jewelry. She uses 2/6 of the wire to make a ring and uses the rest to make a bracelet. How much more wire does Ms. McCarty use for the bracelet than the ring?

Answer 1

Ms. McCarty used 19/3 inches (which simplifies to 6 1/3 inches) more wire for the bracelet than the ring.

Explanation:

If Ms. McCarty used 2/6 of the wire to make the ring, then she used 4/6 (which simplifies to 2/3) of the wire to make the bracelet.

To find out how much wire she used for the bracelet, we can multiply the total amount of wire (19 inches) by 2/3:

19 inches * 2/3 = 38/3 inches

To find out how much more wire she used for the bracelet than the ring, we need to subtract the amount of wire she used for the ring (which is 2/6 or 1/3 of the total) from the amount of wire she used for the bracelet (which is 2/3 of the total):

(2/3) * 19 inches - (1/3) * 19 inches = (38/3 - 19/3) inches = 19/3 inches

Therefore, Ms. McCarty used 19/3 inches (which simplifies to 6 1/3 inches) more wire for the bracelet than the ring.