Question

Maggie is making a necklace using a 13-inch string and identical beads.

Maggie has placed 12 beads next to each other starting at the left end of the string as shown in the
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The 12 beads fill 3 inches of the string. How many total beads will completely fill the 13-inch string

Answer 1

Answer: 52

Part A

Why?

So for this question. You can write a ratio what will the balance be what information do they give you that you can register as a ratio? Well, what will the ratio be?

OK, THE WORK IS HERE!--v

So 12 beads are the ratio.

Now what do we want to know? Well, we want to know how to solve it.

1. 12b= __

3in= 13in <---------well-known way people use it to solve

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2. 12b divided by 12 = 1b

3in divided by 12= ____->ANSWER: 0.25 <----- Not that many people do it this way

for 2. solve-v

1b = ___ ANSWER: 52

0.25 13in 1 We can do this 13 divided by 0.25 which is 52

SO FOR PART A THE ANSWER IS 52

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ANSWER: Part B is __

Why?

-1in off here----------------------------1in off here-

And she wants to keep The middle part and we know this whole thing is 13 but the middle part = 11. Sooooooo...

1b = ___ANSWER 8

0.25 = 2in so now we can do this: 2 divided by 0.25 which we get 8

ANSWER FOR PART B IS 8

Answer 2

52

Explanation:

First find out how many beads cover 1 inch of the string which is 4 beads then multiply that number, 4, by the length of the string, 13. You should get 52.