Question

Amanda has a ribbon that is 6 feet long. She wants to cut it into 12 equal pieces. How long will each piece be? Write the steps, in order, you would take to solve the problem. * 2 points Your answer

Answer 1

Answer: Each piece will be 1/2 feet long.

Explanation:

Hi, to answer this question we have to analyze the information given.

We simply have to divide the length of the ribbon (6) by the number of pieces that she wants to cut (12).

Mathematically speaking:

6 /12 = 1/2

In conclusion, each piece will be 1/2 feet long.

Feel free to ask for more if needed or if you did not understand something.

Answer 2

Each of the pieces will be 0.5 feet long

Explanation:

In this question, we are asked to calculate the individual length Anita will cut a ribbon 6 feet long into to ensure that each of the piece has the same length.

To calculate this, since we don not know what length each of the piece would be, we can say let the length of each of the pieces be x feet

Now, we know that there are 12 pieces that are equal in length. The length of all these 12 pieces would be 12 * x = 12x feet

Now what do we know again?

We also know that these 12x feet equals a total of 6 feet

mathematically therefore;

12x = 6

x = 6/12

x = 0.5 feet