Question

In the art class, Vince made five clay bowls to send to family members. the bowls were fragile and vince bought a roll of bubble wrap to protect them. he used a total of 11 feet of bubble wrap to wrap the balls, how much bubble wrap did vince use for each Bowl?

Answer 1

Answer:

$2.2\text{ }\frac{feet}{\text{Bowl}}$

Explanation:

We need to find how much bubble wrap was used for each Bowl?

Vince had made five clay bowls to send to family members and he used a total of 11 feet of the wrap to cover all five bowls, therefore per bowl used wrap was:

$W_{Bowl}=\frac{Total\text{ wrap}}{\text{Number of bowls}}=\frac{11\text{ f}eet}{5\text{ Bowls}}=2.2\text{ }\frac{feet}{\text{Bowl}}$

Therefore 2.2 feet of wrap was used for each bowl

Mixed number answer:

$\frac{11\text{ f}eet}{5\text{ Bowls}}=2\frac{1}{5}\frac{feet}{\text{Bowl}}$

Proper fraction answer:

A proper fraction is where the numerator is smaller than the denominator since we have the following:

$\text{Numerator }>\text{ Denominator}$

Therefore it can be written as either an improper fraction or a mixed number, improper answer would simply be as follows:

$W_{Bowl}=\frac{11\text{ f}eet}{5\text{ Bowl}}$