Question

An artist made a sculpture out of sections of metal pipe and plastic tubing. He used 1/3 yard of metal pipe divided into 4 equal pieces, and 2 yards of plastic tubing divided into 3 equal pieces. What is the ratio of the length of a piece of metal pipe to the length of a piece of plastic tubing?

Answer 1

Answer: One piece of metal pipe is 3 inches. One piece of plastic however is 6 feet and there are 72 inches in those 6 feet so, the ratio would 3:72 but simplified, it shall be 1:8

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