Question

Nina by 20 yards of ribbon to make a gift decorations the first step in making the decorations was to cut 10% of the revenue from 20 yards which step would result in the same outcome as cutting of 10% of the ribbion

Answer 1

We need to identify the step that is equivalent to cutting 10% of the ribbon.

In order to do so, notice that 10% means 10 out of 100 of something:

$10\%=\frac{10}{100}$

Then, simplifying the above fraction, we can divide both the numerator and the denominator by 10 to obtain:

$\frac{10\div10}{100\div10}=\frac{1}{10}$

Thus, 10% of 20 is given by:

$10\%\text{ of }20=\frac{1}{10}\text{ of }20=\frac{1}{10}\times20=\frac{20}{10}=2$

Therefore, the equivalent step would be:

$\text{ Cut off }\frac{1}{10}\text{ of the 20 yards of ribbon.}$