Nat has 5 pieces of string. Each piece is 7/8 inch long. How many inches of string does Nat have?
5 * 7/8 = ?
from a 12 metres long piece of cloth ,a shopkeeper cuts pieces 3/4 metre long how many pieces will he get
To find out how many total inches of string Nat has, we need to multiply the length of each piece of string by the number of pieces.
Each piece is 7/8 inch long. So, to find the total length, we multiply 7/8 by the total number of pieces, which is 5.
Let's solve this step by step:
First, we calculate: (7/8) x 5
To multiply fractions, we multiply the numerators together and the denominators together.
The calculation becomes: (7 x 5) / (8 x 1)
Multiplying the numerators gives us 35, and the denominators give us 8.
So, the final calculation is: 35 / 8
To express this as a mixed number, we divide the numerator (35) by the denominator (8).
35 ÷ 8 = 4 with a remainder of 3.
Therefore, Nat has 4 and 3/8 inches of string.