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Cheyenne is making friendship bracelets for all of her friends. Each bracelet requires 2/3 meter of thread. If Cheyenne has 2 1/3 meters of thread, how many complete friendship bracelets can she make? 2 1/3÷2/3 7/3÷2/3

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According to the problem, Cheyenne has to divide 2 1/3 meters of thread by 2/3 meter to see how many bracelets she can make.


2(1)/(3)=(6+1)/(3)=(7)/(3)

Let's divide,


(7)/(3)\colon(2)/(3)=(7)/(3)\cdot(3)/(2)=(7)/(2)

She can make 3 complete bracelets.

Observe that the result is 3.5, we can't include the decimal part because the problem is asking for complete bracelets only.

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