Homework Help: math

Posted by Aly on Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 3:12am.

Tami is cutting an 8 1/2 inch wide piece of paper in strips for an art project. How many 1/2 inch strips can she cut?

math - jai, Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 3:17am
first, convert 8 1/2 to improper fraction:
8 1/2 = 17/2
therefore,
(17/2)/(1/2) = (17/2)*(2/1) = 17 strips

so there,, :)

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