sue cut a 4-foot piece of rope into pieces that are .05 feet long. how many pieces of rope did he cut?
4/0.05 = 80
Really? Five hundredths of a foot is extremely small. Typo?
4/.05 = ?
To find out how many pieces of rope Sue cut, we need to divide the length of the rope she cut into the length of each piece.
The length of the rope Sue cut is 4 feet and the length of each piece is 0.05 feet.
To find the number of pieces, we divide the total length of the rope by the length of each piece:
4 feet รท 0.05 feet = 80 pieces
Therefore, Sue cut the 4-foot piece of rope into 80 pieces.