Question

1. A piece of string is 1 4/5 meters long How many 3/10 meter-long strings can you cut from it?​

Answer 1

Answer:

6 piecesEXPLANATION1 4/5 change to improper fraction 9/59/5÷3/10 = 9/5x10/390/15=6

Answer 2

Answer:

The string is two thirds (four sixths) of a metre long (66.66 cm)

Fold it exactly in half, so that there are two tails, each one third (two sixths) of a metre long (33.33 cm)

Fold one of those tails in half to form two smaller tails, each one sixth of a metre long (16.66 cm)

Cut the string at the new elbow, removing one sixth of a metre.

You are left with a string three sixths of a metre long, or half a metre (66.66–16.66 = 50 cm)

This means that you have removed one quarter of the string, and are left with three quarters.