Question

A jewelry maker has 51 inches of chain. She wants to cut the chain into 9 equal parts. How long will each part be?

Answer 1

Hey are there any answer choices?

Answer 2

yeah hold up

Answer 3

4 2/9

5 6/9

6 2/5

7 3/9

Answer 4

Ok first off, what's 51 divided by 9?

Answer 5

Need a guide? Because it does go into decimals.

Answer 6

5 2/3

Answer 7

Ah close, let's go through it.

Answer 8

ok

Answer 9

Lets solve it like this :

Answer 10

9 goes into 5 how many times?

Answer 11

0?

Answer 12

Yep. So this means that. you put a zero at the top, one sec.

Answer 13

im not god will division

Answer 14

-w-

Answer 15

it's ok lol

Answer 16

I'll skip a few steps since it doesn't work for this certain quesiton, but

Answer 17

It basically turns into this:

Answer 18

Next step you bring down the 1 with the 5

Answer 19

mhm

Answer 20

How many times can 9 go into 51?

Answer 21

9+9+9+9+9

9-18-27-36-45

Answer 22

There are 5 times 9 in 51?

Answer 23

yes.

Answer 24

since 9 x 6 would be more then 51 you have to use number 45 which is 9 x 5

Answer 25

It would now look like this :

Answer 26

So whats 51 minus 45?

Answer 27

5!

Answer 28

5 remainder 6! since subtracting 51 - 45 = 6

Answer 29

now that we know the division answer what seems like the closest answer now?

Answer 30

yeah I see lol,

but what do you think the answer is now?

4 2/9

5 6/9

6 2/5

7 3/9


(5 remainder 6 was the answer we just got)

Answer 31

Ok, if you use a calculator and divide 51 by 9 you get the answer 5.66**** (keeps going)

what seems close the same in fractions?

Wouldn't you think 5 6/9 is close to 5 remainder 6?

The same goes for 5.66****

Answer 32

To sum it up, the correct answer is 5 6/9.
Do you get how I got there though?

Answer 33

yeah a lil

Answer 34

thx tho

Answer 35

np, this could help alot https://divisible.info/LongDivision/How-to-calculate-51/divided-by-9-using-long-division.html

Answer 36

ok thx