Question

How can a 3 meter long ribbon divide into 4 equal parts

Answer 1

Think about the question carefully.

The ribbon is one meter long. If you divide it into 4 equal parts, each part is 1/4 of the length of the ribbon. In this case, since the full length of the ribbon is 1 meter, each part is 1/4 meters in length (because 1 meter multiplied by 1/4 is 1/4 of a meter).

So the whole of the ribbon is 4/4 of a meter. If you were to take one part out, the length of the ribbon is now shorter. In fact, it's shorter by 1/4 of a meter because each part is 1/4 of a meter. Because we have the same denominator, we can subtract 4 by 1.

This means the length of the ribbon is 4/4 - 1/4 = 3/4 of meter long or 0.75 meters long.

Answer 2

Answer:

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