Mallory cut a 6ft long board into 3/4ft pieces. How many 3/4ft pieces did she have ?

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anonymous · Answer

Cutting a board should sound to you like "dividing a board"... that's a hint that this is just a division problem.

anonymous · Answer

If you divided a 6 foot board into 1 foot pieces, how many pieces would you get?

6 ft divided by 1 ft per piece = 6 pieces

anonymous · Answer

thanks JakeV8.

anonymous · Answer

So now you need to do:

6 feet divided by 3/4 foot per piece = 6 / (3/4)

anonymous · Answer

Since the pieces are shorter, there should be more of them...

6 / (3/4) = 6(4/3) 
              = 24/3   
              = 8

anonymous · Answer

Does that make sense?  You just have to "translate" the word problem from English to "math language" :)

anonymous · Answer

thank you so much! it did make sense.

anonymous · Answer

great, glad to help!  :)