Question

Yasmine is making party favors for her birthday party. She has 2/5 meter of yarn to makebracelets for 5 people. How much of a meter can Yasmine use for each bracelet?Write out the problem. Then create a model to represent the quotient.

Answer 1

We know that Yasmine has 2/5 meters of yarn to make bracelets for 5 people.

This means that she will have to distribute the 2/5 meters to the 5 people. This can be written as:

`(2)/(5)/5`

And solving it, we get:

`(2)/(5)/5=(2)/(5)\cdot(1)/(5)=(2)/(25)`

This means that Yasmine should use 2/25 of a meter for each bracelet.