Question

@jabez177 A kindergarten teacher purchased 18 yards of ribbon. She cut the ribbon into several pieces, each 3/4 yard long. How many pieces did she get

Answer 1

@JoannaBlackwelder: Length/length of each piece = number of pieces. :-)

Answer 2

Right, we can do this as a conversion problem. Using the idea that 1 piece = 3/4 yards

Answer 3

Have you done conversions before?

Answer 4

i think so

Answer 5

Cool, we put the unit we want to cancel in the denominator: