Question

Question 1 3 pts Isis has 4.8 m of ribbon for crafts. She wants to share it evenly with 12 friends. How many centimeters of ribbon would 5 friends get?

Answer 1

We will investigate the equal distribution of ribbon amoung her friends.

Isis has a ribbon for crafts for a certain length ( L ):

`L\text{ = 4.8 m}`

Isis has ( n ) number of friends amoung which she wants to equally distribute the length ( L ) of her ribbon:

`n\text{ = 12}`

Under the assumption of equal distribution we can divide the total length of ribbon ( L ) amoung Isis ( n ) of friends to determine what length ( l ) each friend got:

`\begin{gathered} l\text{ = }(L)/(n) \\ \\ l\text{ = }(4.8)/(12) \\ \\ l\text{ = 0.4 m or 40 cm} \end{gathered}`

So each friend of Isis got a piece of 40 cm length of the ribbon. So the length of the ribbon accumulated for 5 friends would involves the direct multiplication of 5 number of friends and length of each piece ( l ):

`\begin{gathered} 5\text{ friends got = 5 }\cdot\text{ l} \\ 5\text{ friends got = 5 }\cdot\text{ 40} \\ 5\text{ friends got = }200\text{ cm} \end{gathered}`

Therefore, the answer to the question is:

`200\text{ cm}`