Question

Emma is scrapbooking she has 9inches of paper and needs to cut it into 2/5 inch stripes of paper how many strips will she be able to make?

Answer 1

22 1/2

Explanation:

Ok, so for this problem, you would like to find out how many 2/5 strips can go into 9. There are 2 ways to do this; draw the rope or you can just simplify.

Since we are looking for how any times 2/5 goes into 9, you just need to do 9÷2/5

=9/1*5/2

=45/2

Then you can simplify this if you would like. 45 does not go into 2 perfectly but 44 does. 44/2= 22 so the answer is 22 1/2.