SOLUTION: A. Antonia has a green rope and a blue rope. Her green rope is 4 feet in length. She cut the green rope into 2 pieces. One of the pieces is 21 inches in length. How many inches

Question 1133077: A. Antonia has a green rope and a blue rope. Her green rope is 4 feet in length. She cut the green rope into 2 pieces. One of the pieces is 21 inches in length.
How many inches long is the other piece of the green rope?
B. Antonia’s blue rope measures 2 yards. She wants to cut the rope into MORE than 3 pieces so all the pieces of rope are equal in length with no rope left over.
What is ONE possible way that Antonia can cut the rope so that each piece of rope is less than 24 inches in length?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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B. Antonia’s blue rope measures 2 yards. She wants to cut the rope into MORE than 3 pieces so all the pieces of rope are equal in length with no ro2pe left over.
What is ONE possible way that Antonia can cut the rope so that each piece of rope is less than 24 inches in length?
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2 yards is same as 72 inches.

If Antonia cuts the blue rope into b equal sized pieces, and , then . Pick any whole number value for b that works. You were given that . Will b=4 work? Any others?
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