Question

The length of a rope was 6/8 yard.Jeff cut the rope into 3 pieces. Each piece is a different length measured in eighths of a yard. What is the length of each piece of rope?

Answer 1

I'm really bad math !!!

Answer 2

The length of the rope was $\frac{6}{8}$ yard

Jeff cut the rope into 3 pieces.

Each piece is a different length measured in eighths of a yard which means that the denominator of each piece should be same which is 8

As each piece is of different length so the numerator of each piece will be different.

But the total of the numerator should be 6

So the numerators will be 1, 2 and 3

Since 1 + 2 + 3 = 6

So length of each piece will be

$\frac{1}{8}$ yard

$\frac{2}{8}$ yard

and $\frac{3}{8}$ yard