Question

JOSHUA HAS 3 yards off ribbon. He need 1/4 to make one bow. How many bows can joshua makes?

Answer 1

Suppose you had 10 yards of ribbon and it takes 2 yards to make a bow. You would just do 10 divided by 2 = 5

So, you have a division problem

3 divided by 1/4

Remember with fractions, we don't divide, we multiply by the reciprocal.

Answer 2

Alicia has 4 Yards of ribbons, she needs 1/3 to make one bow. How many bows can Alicia make?

Answer 3

Tevin has 5 yards of ribbon, he needs 1/6 yards to make one bow. How many bows can tevin make?

Answer 4

Yumiko has 6 yards of ribbon. She needs 1/5 yards to make one bow. How many bows can yumiko make?

Answer 5

These are all done the same way.

divide the total by the fraction which is multiplying by the reciprocal.

Answer 6

If you have 2 3/4 ft purple ribbon and 2 1/2 ft of orange ribbon how many bows can be made?
1 bow uses 3/8 purple ribbon and 1/3ft of orange
Ribbon. Divide amount have and amount needed

Answer 7

12