Final answer:
To determine the number of houses on a 4-mile-long street with a house every 1/4 mile, divide the length of the street by the distance between houses: 4 miles ÷ 1/4 mile per house equals 16 houses.
Step-by-step explanation:
The student is asking how many houses there would be on a 4-mile-long Maple Street if there is a house every 1/4 of a mile. To find the answer, we divide the total length of the street by the distance between the houses. Since the street is 4 miles long and each house is 1/4 mile apart, we do the following calculation:
4 miles ÷ 1/4 mile per house = 16 houses on Maple Street.
This is because when you divide by a fraction, you are essentially multiplying by its reciprocal. So dividing by 1/4 is the same as multiplying by 4/1 (or simply 4). Therefore, 4 miles times 4 houses per mile equals 16 houses. So, the correct answer is that there are 16 houses on Maple Street.