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Jill is making a decoration she cuts a 8-foot ribbon into pieces that are each 3/4 foot long the remaining piece of ribbon is shorter than the others how long is it

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Answer:

The answer to your question is 0.5 ft or 1/2 ft

Explanation:

Data

total length = 8 ft

length of the pieces = 3/4

length of the remaining = ?

Process

1.- Divide the total length of the ribbon by the length of the pieces

8 ÷ 3/4 = 32/3

2.- Convert the improper fraction into a mixed fraction

10 Quotient

3 32

2 Remainder

3.- That means that there will be 10 pieces of ribbon. 10 pieces of ribbon measure 7.5 ft.

and the remaining piece will be of 0.5 ft

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