Your question states: Xia has 16 meters of rope. She cuts off 1/6 of the rope to use as a skipping rope for a party activity. how long is xias skipping rope.
You can find this by doing the following:
16/ 1/6 = ?
how many times does 1/6 go into 16?
The answer is 2 and 2/3 meters or 8/3 meters or 2.66667 meters
