A sausage is #9# inches long and needs to be cut into pieces each #2/3# of an inch long. How many sausages can be cut?

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Answer 1 · 2016-09-26T20:48:55

#13 #pieces can be cut.

If the question sounds a bit confusing at first, make one similar to it, but with easy numbers.

A sausage is 10 inches long and needs to be cut into pieces each of 2 inches long.

We realise easily that this is a division .#10div2 = 5"" #pieces will be cut.

Now do the same with the numbers we are given:

#9 div 2/3 = 9/1 xx 3/2#

=#27/2#

=#13 # pieces and there will be a small piece left over