Question

Lucy has 4 inches of ribbon that she wants to cut into 6 equal sized pieces. What is true about the length of each piece of ribbon. A) each piece has 6/4 inches of ribbon B) each piece has 1/4 of 6 inches of ribbon C) each piece has 1/6 of 4 inches of ribbon

Answer 1

Answer:

Option C

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

Total length of ribbon lucy has=4 inches

She wants to divide it into 6 equal sized pieces so  

Length of each piece=4/6

This can also be written as:

Length of each piece=4*(1/6 )

Now we will look at the options one by one:

For A, Each piece has 6/4 inches of ribbon.. This statement is not true as we have to divide 4 inches into 6 pieces so 4 is supposed to be in the numerator.

For B, breaking down 4/6 gives us 4*(1/6), so the statement is not true.

For C , as we can see that the expression is 4*(1/6), each piece will have 1/6 of inches of ribbon.

So option C is the correct answer..