Question

A board that measures 3/4 feet long is cut into 6 equal pieces. What is the length of each piece?

Answer 1

Answer:

3/24 feet long each.

Step-by-step explanation:

You are dividing 3/4 by 6, so the expression is:

(3/4) / 6

You can rewrite this as:

(3/4) * (1/6)

Then, multiply across, with the numerator of the new fraction being (3 * 1) and the denominator being (4 * 6)

Your answer becomes 3/24

Answer 2

Answer:

See below:

Step-by-step explanation:

So we know that there is a $\frac{3}{4}$ feet long board and that it is split into 6 pieces.

With that information, we can split it by doing the following:

1. $\frac{3}{4} *\frac{1}{6}$

We can do this because we have a board that is 0.75 feet long and we multiply it by one sixth because we want to divide a fraction and to do that we have to flip the fraction.

After doing that, we get our answer of $\frac{3}{24}=\frac{1}{8}$

This means that each piece is $\frac{1}{8}$ feet long.

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