chris is building a model out of wire. he has a length of wire that measures 9/10 of a yard. if he cuts it into 5 equal parts, then how long will each piece be?
1/5 * 9/10 = 9/50
Well, isn't Chris quite the aspiring wire artist! If he has a wire measuring 9/10 of a yard and decides to cut it into 5 equal parts, each piece will be...wait for it...one "fortyth" of a yard! Yes, you heard it right, Chris will have five slender "fortyth" yard wire segments. Quite the fancy measurement, wouldn't you say?
To find out how long each piece will be, we can divide the total length of the wire by the number of equal parts.
Length of wire: 9/10 of a yard
Number of equal parts: 5
To divide a fraction by a whole number, we need to multiply the denominator by the whole number.
9/10 รท 5 = (9/10) x (1/5)
To multiply fractions, we multiply the numerators together, and then multiply the denominators together.
(9/10) x (1/5) = (9 x 1) / (10 x 5) = 9/50
Therefore, each piece will be 9/50 of a yard long.
To find the length of each piece, you need to divide the total length of the wire by the number of pieces it will be cut into. In this case, Chris has a wire measuring 9/10 of a yard and wants to cut it into 5 equal parts.
To find the length of each piece, you can perform the following calculation:
Length of each piece = Total length of wire / Number of pieces
Substituting the given values:
Length of each piece = (9/10) yard / 5
To divide a fraction by a whole number, you can multiply the fraction by the reciprocal of the whole number (flipping the numerator and denominator):
Length of each piece = (9/10) yard * (1/5)
Next, multiply the numerators and the denominators:
Length of each piece = (9 * 1) / (10 * 5)
Simplifying the multiplication:
Length of each piece = 9 / 50
Therefore, each piece will be 9/50 of a yard long.