Question

from 10 meters of wire, 3/4 meter was cut.How many meters of wire were left?Show your answer by using an illustration

Answer 1

You're given a fraction, 3/4-m. It's in your best interest to convert the whole number, 10-m, into a fraction. This can be thought of writing 10/1, and multiplying both the numerator, 10, and the denominator, 1, by 4. Once you have 10-m with the same denominator as 3/4-m, you can then do 4(10/1)-(3/4) and find the new total length of the wire in meters.

Now if you are asking about 75% of the wire being cut off, that is a different story. You then have to think of how many times 4 will go into 10, and then multiply that amount by 3 in order to do the subtraction.

Answer 2

From 4 meters of wire 3/4 meter was cute.

A.how many meters of wire were left?