Miss Garcia will teach her students to make friendship bracelets tomorrow. She wants to organize all the materials today. Each student will need 4 pieces of thread. If each piece is 1 2/3 feet long, how many feet of thread will each student get?
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1 2/3 / 4
To find out how many feet of thread each student will get, we need to multiply the number of pieces by the length of each piece.
We are given that each student will need 4 pieces of thread, and each piece is 1 2/3 feet long.
First, let's convert 1 2/3 feet into an improper fraction:
1 2/3 = (1 * 3 + 2) / 3 = 5/3
Now we can calculate the total length of thread for each student:
4 pieces * (5/3 feet/piece) = 20/3 feet
To simplify the result, we can divide the numerator (20) by the denominator (3):
20 รท 3 = 6 remainder 2
So, each student will get 6 feet and 2/3 feet of thread.