Let Us Study Let us try to answer the problem below. Grace wants to help her mother, who is a dressmaker. They have 4 meters of cloth. They wanted to make hand towels and sold it in a store nearby. How many hand towels can they make if each towel measures meter. Analyze the problem first by answering the following: What are the given facts? What is asked? What is the operation to be used? To solve the problem, we are going to use 4 strips of the same length to represent the 4-meter cloth. Let us assume that each strip measures 1 meter. 1
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Answer:
4 hand towels.
What are the given facts?
They have 4 meters of cloth.
Each towel they want to make measures a meter.
What is asked?
How many hand towels can they make.
What is the operation to be used?
Multiplication.
Explanation:
They have 4 meters of cloth and each hand towel they will make measures 1 meter.
Use 4 strips of cloth as said above to represent the 4 meter cloth and each strip measures 1 meter.
4 (for the meter of the cloth.)
1 ( for the meter of the hand towel they want to make.)
4 x 1 = 4