Kayla has 3 yards of ribbon. She wants to cut the ribbon into pieces that are 1/4 yard long. How many pieces of ribbon will Kayla have
3 / (1/4)
3 * 4 = ______ pieces
To find out how many pieces of ribbon Kayla will have, we need to divide the total length of the ribbon by the length of each piece.
Given that Kayla has 3 yards of ribbon, and she wants to cut it into pieces that are 1/4 yard long, we can set up the division like this:
3 yards of ribbon ÷ 1/4 yard per piece
To divide by a fraction, we can multiply by the reciprocal of that fraction. So, we can rewrite the division problem as:
3 yards of ribbon × 4/1 yard per piece
Simplifying the multiplication, we get:
(3 × 4) / 1 = 12 / 1
Therefore, Kayla will have 12 pieces of ribbon.