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Dan has a square piece of paper. This paper is about 48cm wide. He then cuts it into 20 equal strips. How can he find out the breadth of each strip without measuring? Is this width accurate?
9 years ago

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Reiny
Each strip should be 48/20 or 2.4 cm

The trick would be to cut the paper into those 20 strips without measurement.
How could you possible do that?
9 years ago
Chynelle
Round it to the nearest tenth
9 years ago

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