Answer:
3 times longer
Step-by-step explanation:
[] With your comment of the following, we can answer this question;
"There are red blue and yellow ribbons. The red ribbon is 1/2 meters long the blue ribbon is 1 1/2 meters long, and the yellow ribbon Is 3/8 meters long. About how many times longer is the blue ribbon than the red ribbon?"
-> The problem is only asking about blue (1 1/2) and red (1/2) so we can ignore yellow in this case.
[] It is asking how many <u>times</u> longer the blue ribbon is. Times is multiplication, and the opposite of multiplication is division.
-> 1 1/2 can become 3/2 to make doing division easier
-> 3/2 / 1/2 becomes 3/2 * 2/1, and then we multiply across
-> The blue ribbon is 3 times longer than the red ribbon.
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- Heather