A piece of cord 1.8 m long is cut evenly into smaller pieces of 0.05 m each. How many of these pieces can be cut?Number of pieces =

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Kerryann · Answer 1 · 2023-07-24T05:22:27+0000

Solution:

We are given that :-

• A Piece of a cord = 1.8m long

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• need to cut into smaller pieces of 0.05m each

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• let ",n", be the number of smaller pieces to be cut

0.05 * n = 1.8

∴ n = 1.8/0.05

n = 36

• This means that 36 smaller pieces will be cut into 0.05m