Question

Kayleigh uses wires to make the bows for bouquets at her flower shop. She will cut a piece of wire that is 97.5 centimeters long into ten equal pieces. How long will each piece be?

Answer 1

Length of each wire is 9.75 centimeter

Solution:

Given that, Kayleigh uses wires to make the bows for bouquets at her flower shop

She will cut a piece of wire that is 97.5 centimeters long into ten equal pieces

To find: Length of each piece

From given information,

Total length of wire = 97.5 cm

Number of pieces = 10

Length of each piece is found by dividing total length of wire by number of pieces

`\text{Length of each piece } = \frac{\text{Total length of wire}}{\text{number of pieces}}`

Substituting the values, we get

`\text{Length of each wire } = (97.5)/(10) = 9.75`

Thus length of each wire is 9.75 centimeter