Question

a spool of ribbon has 18 feet on it. pieces measuring of 8 inches will be cut from the spool of ribbon. how many 8 inch segments will be cut from the spool of ribbon
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Answer 1

1 foot is 12 inches. 18 feet is 18×12=216 inches. each segment is 8 inch measurement, so 18 feet has 216÷8=27 segments. so the correct answer is 27 segments

Answer 2

By dividing the total length by the length of the pieces, we conclude that we can make 2 of these pieces.

How many 8 inch segments will be cut?

To get this, we need to divide the total length by the length of the desired pieces, and then round to the next (lowest) whole number.

Then we get:

N = 18ft/8ft = 2.25

Rounding to the next whole number we get 2, so we conclude that with 18t of ribbon we can make 2 pieces of 8ft each.

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