Question

Shikha cuts 50 m of cloth into pieces of 1.25 m each. How many pieces does she get?

Answer 1

Length of cloth = 50 m

Length of one piece of cloth = 1.25 m

Let the number of pieces be x.

$\therefore$ Number of pieces​ of cloth $\times$ Length of each piece of cloth = Total length of cloth

x $\times$1.25 = 50
x = $\frac{50}{1.25}$
= $$\begin{gathered} \frac{50\times 100}{125} \\ =40 \end{gathered}$$

Thus, she gets 40 pieces of 1.25 m cloth from a total of 50 m.