Question

You are asked to cut a 180-inch piece of rope into 60,3-inch sections. If it takes 1 minute to make each cut, how many minutes will it take to cut the rope into 60 pieces?

Answer 1

It will take 60 minutes to cut 60 pieces

Explanation:

To cut 180 inch piece into 3 inch section, we will have (180/3)=60 pieces of 3 inch sections

It takes 1 minute=1 piece

To cut 60 pieces=(60×1)=60 minutes