SOLUTION: Hello. I need help finding the answer to this problem. Vance has a piece of rope that is 5.6 meters long. He cuts the rope into 5 equal-sized pieces. How many meters long is eac

Question 71144: Hello. I need help finding the answer to this problem.
Vance has a piece of rope that is 5.6 meters long. He cuts the rope into 5 equal-sized pieces. How many meters long is each of the pieces of rope?
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If the rope is originally 5.6 meters long and it is cut into five equal lengths, the length of each piece can be found by dividing the original length (5.6 m) by the number of equal-length pieces (5).
meters.
Each piece is 1.12 meters long.
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