a factory's pipe cutting machine cuts pieces of pipe to be threaded. The length to be cut is 8 feet. How many 2/3 long pieces of pipe can be cut from a 8 ft long pipe?
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To find out how many 2/3 long pieces of pipe can be cut from an 8 ft long pipe, you need to divide the length of the pipe by the length of each piece.
The length of each piece is 2/3 of 8 ft, or (2/3) * 8 = 16/3 ft.
To find out how many pieces can be cut, divide the length of the pipe (8 ft) by the length of each piece (16/3 ft):
8 / (16/3) = 8 * (3/16) = 24/16 = 1.5
Therefore, you can cut 1.5 pieces of pipe from an 8 ft long pipe. However, since you cannot cut half a pipe, you can only cut a whole number of pieces. Therefore, you can cut 1 piece of pipe from an 8 ft long pipe.
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I apologize for the error in my previous response. To find out how many 2/3 long pieces of pipe can be cut from an 8 ft long pipe, we need to divide the length of the pipe by the length of each piece.
The length of each piece is 2/3 of 8 ft, or (2/3) * 8 = 16/3 ft.
To find out how many pieces can be cut, divide the length of the pipe (8 ft) by the length of each piece (16/3 ft):
8/(16/3) = 8 * (3/16) = 24/16 = 1.5
Since we cannot have a fractional number of pieces, we can cut 1 whole piece of pipe from an 8 ft long pipe.