Question

A piece of wire 3/8 m long is to be cut into 12 pieces of the same length. what is the length of each piece? Each piece is ____ m long

Answer 1

Given,

Length of the wire, L=3/8 m

Its cut into 12pieces.

Thus length of one piece is:

$l=\frac{3}{8}m\times\frac{1}{12}=\frac{1}{32}m=0.031m$

The answer is:

Each piece is 0.031 m long.