Question

Do i sudtract or Divide or Multiply??
21 meter by 0.26

Answer 1

please include the full question - what you wrote doesn't quite make sense.

Answer 2

Loren is putting bricks along both edges of the 21-meter walkway to his house. Each brick is 0.26 meters long. Loren is placing bricks end to end. How many bricks does be need?

Answer 3

To get the concept, think easier numbers first. Pretend the walk is 5 feet, and each brick is 1 foot. How many bricks would he need?

Answer 4

"divide" is right, but you probably could answer your own question by thinking about it with easy numbers

Answer 5

5 feet

Answer 6

5 bricks, you mean... :)

Answer 7

yes

Answer 8

So it is dividing up the length into brick-sized sections... the number of sections is the number of bricks he needs. So in the easy example, if it was 10 feet long, each brick is 1 ft still, you need 10/1 = 10 bricks.

Answer 9

In the real problem, you need (21 m long sidewalk)/(0.26 m long brick) = number of bricks

Answer 10

Does he have 1.2385 bricks??

Answer 11

@emelylove sorry, I was away a few minutes... i don't think you did the division right.

I got 21/0.26 = 80.77 bricks.