Amanda has 5 pieces of wire that are each 15.5 feet long . She wants to cut the wire into 3.5 feet long pieces. Any extra wire will be considered scrap . How much scrap will Amanda have ?
to do this, divide 15.5 by 3.5 to find how many times it can be divided before there are scraps. 15.5 divided by 3.5 is 4 pieces, with a remainder of 1.5. so she will have 1.5 feet of scraps.
