A snail is crawling along a meter stick. At a certain point the snail stops. The snail needs to crawl three times as far as it has already crawled in order to be 4 cm from the end. How far has the snail already crawled?

96/4 = ?

actually it is 100 cm - 4 cm = 96cm the divide by 3 to get the anwser

To solve this problem, we need to work through the information provided step by step.

Let's assume that the snail has crawled a distance of "x" centimeters so far.

According to the question, the snail needs to crawl three times as far as it has already crawled. Therefore, the total distance the snail needs to crawl to be 4 cm from the end of the meter stick would be 3x.

We know that the snail stops at a certain point. At that point, the snail has crawled a distance of x cm. From that point, the snail needs to crawl an additional 3x cm to be 4 cm from the end.

So, the sum of the distance the snail has already crawled (x cm) and the additional distance it needs to crawl (3x cm) should equal the total length of the meter stick, which is 100 cm.

Let's set up an equation to represent this:

x + 3x = 100

Simplifying the equation, we get:

4x = 100

To solve for x, we divide both sides of the equation by 4:

x = 100 / 4

Calculating this, we find:

x = 25

Therefore, the snail has already crawled a distance of 25 cm.