Sue has 8 yards of twine she cuts the twine into equal pieces of 3/4 feet each how many pieces can he cut?
8 * 3 = 24 feet
24 / (3/4)
24 * (4/3) = 96/3 = 32 pieces
To find out how many pieces Sue can cut, we need to divide the total length of twine by the length of each piece.
1 yard is equal to 3 feet, so Sue has a total of 8 yards which would be 8 * 3 = 24 feet of twine.
Each piece is 3/4 feet long. To divide 24 feet by 3/4 feet, we need to calculate 24 ÷ (3/4).
To divide by a fraction, we can multiply by its reciprocal. The reciprocal of 3/4 is 4/3. So, we can rewrite the division as 24 × (4/3).
Multiplying the numerators and denominators, we get 24 × 4 = 96 and 1 × 3 = 3.
So, 24 ÷ (3/4) is equal to 96/3, which simplifies to 32.
Therefore, Sue can cut the twine into 32 equal pieces of 3/4 feet each.