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Algebra Difficulty 1.4 Junior Find the answer Canada

Strips are made up of identical copies of blocks. Each block has length $\frac{2}{3}$ . Which strip has length 4?

Your answer

A number or a short expression. Fractions can be typed as 3/2, and spacing doesn't matter.

Solution

Since each block has length $\frac{2}{3}$ , then a strip of three block will have length $3 \times \frac{2}{3}=2$ .

We need two strips of length 2 to get a strip of length 4.

Since 3 block make a strip of length 2, then 6 block make a strip of length 4.

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