A manufacturer of bird feeders cuts spacers from a tube that is 7 5/7 inches long. How many spacers can be cut from the tube if each spacer must be 6/7 inch?
estimated number of spacers?
exact number of spacers?

Question

A manufacturer of bird feeders cuts spacers from a tube that is 7 5/7 inches long. How many spacers can be cut from the tube if each spacer must be 6/7 inch?
estimated number of spacers?
exact number of spacers?

anonymous · Answer

(7 5/7) / (6/7)

anonymous · Answer

25/2 ?

anonymous · Answer

which would be 12.5

anonymous · Answer

estimate 12 and actual 13?

ganeshie8 · Answer

in the question, is it 

$7\frac{5}{7}$

or 

$\frac{75}{7}$

?

anonymous · Answer

the first one

ganeshie8 · Answer

then you need to convert the mixed fraction

anonymous · Answer

so was i right with my answer earlier?

ganeshie8 · Answer

here is an insane way of doing it :

7 5/7

7 + 5/7

7*7/7 + 5/7

[7(6+1)/7) + 5/7]

7(6/7) + 7/7 + 5/7

7(6/7) + 6/7 + 1/7 + 5/7

7(6/7) + 6/7 + 6/7

9(6/7)

ganeshie8 · Answer

so there are 9 objects of length 6/7  !!

anonymous · Answer

ok I see now by your breaksown

ganeshie8 · Answer

great !!
but the easy way is to simply divide the 7 5/7 with 6/7 as below

7 5/7 = 54/7

to findout spacers of length 6/7 :
(54/7)/(6/7) = 54/6  = 9

both methods give the same answer