Question

Cheyenne is making friendship bracelets for all of her friends. Each bracelet requires 2/3 meter of thread. If Cheyenne has 2 1/3 meters of thread, how many complete friendship bracelets can she make? 2 1/3÷2/3 7/3÷2/3

Answer 1

According to the problem, Cheyenne has to divide 2 1/3 meters of thread by 2/3 meter to see how many bracelets she can make.

$2\frac{1}{3}=\frac{6+1}{3}=\frac{7}{3}$

Let's divide,

$\frac{7}{3}\colon\frac{2}{3}=\frac{7}{3}\cdot\frac{3}{2}=\frac{7}{2}$

She can make 3 complete bracelets.

Observe that the result is 3.5, we can't include the decimal part because the problem is asking for complete bracelets only.