Fred has 10 feet of wire. He decides to cut it into equal-length pieces.
How many pieces will he get if each piece is 4 ft long?
2 pieces
He will have 2 pieces of 4 ft long wire and 1
piece of a 2 ft long wire
To find out how many pieces Fred will get if each piece is 4 feet long, we can divide the total length of the wire by the length of each piece.
The length of the wire is given as 10 feet. We want to divide this by the length of each piece, which is 4 feet.
So, we perform the following calculation:
Number of pieces = Total length of wire / Length of each piece
Number of pieces = 10 ft / 4 ft
Dividing 10 by 4 gives us a quotient of 2.5. However, since we're dealing with lengths of wire, we can't have a fraction of a piece. Therefore, we need to round down to the nearest whole number.
So, Fred will get 2 pieces if each piece is 4 feet long.