Bruce needs 30 five-foot pieces of rope for a school project. The hardware store sells rope by the yard. How many yards of rope will Bruce need to purchase?
All you need to do is find the total amount of rope you need so the 30 x 5 (which equals 150 feet of rope btw) You then divide by three to get the number of yards, so 150/3= 50. So Bruce needs to purchase 50 yards of rope.
total amount of rope:30x5=150 150
÷3=50 50 YARDS OF ROPE is the answer
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To find out how many yards of rope Bruce needs to purchase, we need to convert the measurement from feet to yards. Here's how you can do it:
1. Determine the length of one piece of rope in yards: Since Bruce needs 30 five-foot pieces of rope, we need to convert 5 feet to yards. Since there are 3 feet in a yard, we divide 5 by 3 to find that one piece of rope is approximately 1.67 yards long.
2. Calculate the total length of rope Bruce needs: Now, we multiply the length of one piece of rope (1.67 yards) by the number of pieces Bruce needs (30).
1.67 yards/piece x 30 pieces = 50.1 yards
Thus, Bruce will need to purchase approximately 50.1 yards of rope from the hardware store.