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marquise cut a 33 in roll a wire into 7 equal sized pieces for a science experiment . what is the length of each piece of wire?

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4.71"

1) Since it's been cut into 7 equal-sized pieces. Then we can write:

2)


(33)/(7)=4.71^(\doubleprime)

Since this is not an exact division, each piece has approximately 4.71"

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