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A tailor used 2 meters of string to make 10 Halloween masks. He used _ of a meter for each mask.

Sagot :

one fifth of a meter for each mask
2/10=1/5

Answer: He used [tex]\dfrac{1}{5}[/tex] of a meter for each mask.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given : A tailor used 2 meters of string to make 10 Halloween masks.

Here, Total length of string = 2 meters

Number of masks = 10

The the part of a meter of string is used for each Halloween mask will be :-

[tex]\dfrac{2}{10}=\dfrac{1}{5} \text{ meter}[/tex]  [Divide total length of string by number of masks]

Hence, he used [tex]\dfrac{1}{5}[/tex] of a meter for each mask.