Sheet # 387
Name_________________________Date:_____________
Show your work.
1)A 124-foot length of rope was cut into 8 equal pieces. How long is each piece of the rope?
2) A 66-pound bag of potting soil is poured in 12 small containers of equal size. How much soil does each container hold?
3) Two tailors are cutting cloth. The first tailor cuts 7 m of cloth into 4 equal lengths. The second tailor cuts 9 m of cloth into 5 equal lengths. Which tailor's strips of length are longer? How much?
4) Twenty-five identical gift boxes are stacked. The whole stack is 115 inches high. How tall is each box?
5) A loaf of bread is exactly 1 foot in length. If the loaf were cut into 32 equal slices, how many inches wide would each slice be?
Answers for sheet # 387
1) 15.5 feet
2) 5.5 pounds
3) First Tailor: 1.75 m
Second tailor: 1.80 m
0.05 m longer
4) 4.6 inches
5) 0.375 inches