Question

Ethan has a piece of string that is 6 meters long. He cuts the string into 3 pieces of equal length. How many centimeters long is each piece of string?

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Answer:

200 cm

Explanation:

1 meter is 100 cm, so 6 meters is 600 cm. Each piece is 1/3 of that, so is ...

(600 cm)/3 = 200 cm . . . length of each piece