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ACT Aspire Math: Helping Brandon Wrap Gifts Using Ribbon Lengths 0 Views


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Brandon needs 5 feet of ribbon to wrap holiday gifts. How many more feet of ribbon does he need?


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Okay Math people Another drill for you Here we go

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Brandon needs five feet A ribbon wrap holiday gifts The

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chart shown here This one right here represents the number

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of ribbons of each length he already has So how

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many more feet of ribbon does he need Aren't three

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dots here That's five there and two on the third

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thing We feel you brandon Last minute panic wrapping is

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the worst Not that we're speaking from personal experience or

00:34

anything Each Mark indicates 1 ribbon in the given length

00:37

there So calculate the number of marx by the length

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of the ribbon and add the results together to find

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the length of ribbon Brandon already has a neck It's

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just three of these things Time to fourth and five

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times in this a third and then two times two

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thirds there Adam altogether got three fourth five thirds plus

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four thirds And what is that That's nine twelve mil

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by both sides top and bottom by three there and

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then on top and bottom by four For these guys

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get nine Plus twenty is twenty nine and then sixteen

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That's forty five twelve and divide what are dividing into

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their by three I guess that's forty five so that

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be fifteen force That's it So we're looking for the

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difference between fifteen force beat and five feet which would

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be much easier if we were dealing with fractions of

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the same common denominator Per usual We gotta find one

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So let's see Five feet is the same as twenty

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over four feet and we're going to take twenty over

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four and then subtract the fifteen force that gets us

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five force So that's it Brandon needs just over one

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foot of ribbon We're not entirely sure where he's going

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to find it but we're sure he'll you know make 00:01:39.287 --> [endTime] it happens That's it The answer is

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