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Answer 1

By direct division, we will find that the length of each piece of rope is 10.5m

How to perform the division?

So e start with a 42 meter long rope and we cut it into 4 equal parts, then we know that each one of these pieces will have a length equal to:

L = (42m/4)

To perform that division, you can see that 42 is not a multiple of 4, so we can write:

L = (40m + 2m)/4 = (40m/4) + (2m/4)

The first quotient is just equal to 10m, while the second one is:

(2m/4) = (1m/2) = 0.5m

Then we have:

L =  (40m/4) + (2m/4) = 10m + 0.5m = 10.5m

Each piece of rope has a length of 10.5m

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