Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

thanks JakeV8.

Answer 4

So now you need to do:

6 feet divided by 3/4 foot per piece = 6 / (3/4)

Answer 5

Since the pieces are shorter, there should be more of them...

6 / (3/4) = 6(4/3)
= 24/3
= 8

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

thank you so much! it did make sense.

Answer 8

great, glad to help! :)