SOLUTION: bruce needs 30 five-foot pieces of rope for a school project. the hardware store sells rope by the yard. how many yards of rope will bruce need

Question 388670: bruce needs 30 five-foot pieces of rope for a school project. the hardware store sells rope by the yard. how many yards of rope will bruce need
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since "bruce needs 30 five-foot ", this means that he needs feet of rope total.

Now recall that 3 ft = 1 yard. Now multiply both sides by 50 to get

3*50 ft = 1* 50 yd

150 ft = 50 yd

So this means that he needs 50 yards of rope.

Note: alternatively, you can divide 150 by 3 to convert from feet to yards.

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