Your class is learning to tie knots. Each student needs a piece of rope that is 3/8 yard long. How many yards of rope are needed for the 16 students in your class?
48 yards
2 yards
6 yards
43 yards
Your class is learning to tie knots. Each student needs a piece of rope that is 3/8 yard long. How many yards of rope are needed for the 16 students in your class?
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To find out how much rope is needed for 16 students, you can multiply the length of rope each student needs by the number of students:
[
text{Total rope needed} = text{Length per student} times text{Number of students}
]
Here, the length per student is ( frac{3}{8} ) yard and the number of students is 16:
[
text{Total rope needed} = frac{3}{8} times 16
]
To calculate this, first convert 16 to a fraction:
[
16 = frac{16}{1}
]
Now multiply the fractions:
[
frac{3 times 16}{8 times 1} = frac{48}{8} = 6
]
So, the total amount of rope needed for the 16 students is 6 yards.
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