Sandra has a 5 -foot length canvas.she cuts the canvas into pieces that are 1/4 feet long . How many pieces will she have?
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15 รท (1/4) ?
remember how to divide by a fraction.
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To find the number of pieces Sandra will have, we need to divide the length of the canvas by the length of each piece.
Given:
Length of the canvas = 5 feet
Length of each piece = 1/4 foot
To find the number of pieces, we divide the length of the canvas by the length of each piece:
Number of pieces = Length of canvas / Length of each piece
Plugging in the values:
Number of pieces = 5 feet / (1/4) feet
To divide by a fraction, we can multiply by its reciprocal:
Number of pieces = 5 feet * (4/1 feet)
Multiplying the fractions:
Number of pieces = (5 * 4) feet / 1 feet
Simplifying the multiplication and canceling out the feet:
Number of pieces = 20 pieces
Therefore, Sandra will have 20 pieces after cutting the canvas.