Question

An American sausage is 4/3 inches long. How many pieces of sausage can be cut from the 4/3 inch piece of sausage if each piece is two-thirds of an inch?

Answer 1

2 Pieces can be cut

Explanation:

We know that our sausage is 4/3 inches and we want to know how many 2/3 pieces can be cut. we start by examining our fractions.

4/3 & 2/3, since they have the same denominator we can simply divide the total length by how big each cut should be!

4/3 ÷ 2/3 = 2