Question

Martha has a ribbon that is one 3/4 m long. She cuts the ribbon into three equal size pieces. She uses one of the pieces to make gift bows each bow uses 7/48. Of a meter of ribbon how many gift bows does Martha make?
A. 12.
B. Four.
C. 36.
D. 1/4

Answer 1

To find the number of gift bows Martha can make, we need to find how many pieces of ribbon she can get from the original piece. The original piece of ribbon is 1 3/4 m long, and she cuts it into three equal-sized pieces. Each piece will be 1 3/4 m / 3 = 7/12 m long.
Now we can find how many gift bows she can make from each piece of ribbon. Each bow uses 7/48 m of ribbon, so the number of bows she can make from each piece is (7/12 m) / (7/48 m/bow) = 4 bows.
Since Martha has three equal-size pieces, she can make a total of 3 pieces * 4 bows/piece = <<3*4=12>>12 gift bows.

Therefore, the answer is A. 12.