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Alexis cut a 4-foot piece of rope into pieces that are each 0 25 feet long. how many pieces if rope did he cut? A. 1B. 4C. 8D. 16

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You have a 4-foot piece of rope and you have to divide it into pieces of 0.25feet long each.

To determine how many pieces of rope he can cut, you have to divide 4 by 0.25

0.25 can be expressed as a fraction as 1/4

So de division is


4/(1)/(4)

To divide by a fraction, you have to reverse the fraction and multiply the numerator of the division by the reciprocal fraction


(1)/(4)\to(4)/(1)
4\cdot4=16

He can cut the rope into 16 pieces of 0.25feet of length each.

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