jill has 8 yards of cloth. she wants to cut it into pieces that are 1/4 yard long. How many pieces can she cut from the length of cloth
32
8 / (1/4)
8 * 4 = _______ pieces
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To find out how many pieces Jill can cut from the length of cloth, we need to divide the total length of cloth by the length of each piece. In this case, Jill has 8 yards of cloth, and she wants to cut pieces that are 1/4 yard long.
To divide 8 by 1/4, we can use the concept of reciprocals. The reciprocal of 1/4 is 4/1 (or simply 4). Multiplying a fraction by its reciprocal results in a value of 1.
So, we can rewrite the division problem as 8 * 4/1, which equals 32.
Therefore, Jill can cut 32 pieces from the length of cloth.