Question

Nicole used 3/8 of her ribbon to wrap a present. If she used 6 feet of ribbon for the present, how much ribbon would Nicole have at first?

Answer 1

Nicole would have 16 feet of ribbon at first

Answer 2

Nicole used only a fraction of her ribbon to wrap the present

the length of ribbon she used is 6 feeet

so lets name the length of the ribbon she had originally as X

the fraction of X she used was - 3/8 of X

so we can write the following equation

when of function is used we multiply

3X = 6*8

3X = 48

X = 16

therefore length of the original ribbon piece Nicole had was 16 feet