Question

Jon needs to buy 4 1/8 feet of packaging tape. There are 1 3/8 feet of tape on each roll. How many rolls of tape should Jon buy?

Answer 1

we have to divide the mix fractions, bet first let us change it to normal fractions

`\begin{gathered} 4(1)/(8)=(32+1)/(8)=(33)/(8) \\ 1(3)/(8)=(11)/(8) \end{gathered}`

now we can divide them

`((33)/(8))/((11)/(8))=(33)/(8)\cdot(8)/(11)=(33)/(11)=3`

so he should buy 3 rolls