Question

A ball of string is 50 yards long. A shipper uses 5 yards of string to tie packages. The remaining string is then cut into 7 equal pieces. What is the length of each of the 7 pieces of string?

Answer 1

Answer:

The beginning 50 yards is cut short 5 yards, therefore leaving 45 for the 7 equal pieces. If you take 45 and divide it by 7 you get 6.4285714286. Hope this helps?

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Answer 2

Length of the String = 50 yards

Shipper uses 5 yards of the String

so,the remaining length of the String will be 50-5 which is 45 yards

then the string is divided into 7 equal parts

Therefore the length of each part of the String is

45 ÷ 7 = 6.428 yards

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