Question

Ed is making 1/2 foot long bookmarks out of leather strips. If he has 12 leather strips that each measure 1 foot long, how many bookmarks can he make? Write and solve the equation that goes with this problem

Answer 1

24 bookmarks.

`n = 12 * (1 / (1)/(2))`

Explanation:

Ed is making 1/2 foot long bookmarks out of leather strips.

Now, if he has 12 leather strips that each measure 1 foot long, then each of the 1-foot leather strip can be made into
`1 / (1)/(2) = 2` half foot long bookmarks.

Hence, from all the 12 leather strips he can make (12 × 2) = 24 bookmarks.

So, the equation that represents the number of bookmarks that can be made will be,
`n = 12 * (1 / (1)/(2))` (Answer).