ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
ACT Aspire Math: Helping Brandon Wrap Gifts Using Ribbon Lengths 0 Views
Share It!
Description:
Brandon needs 5 feet of ribbon to wrap holiday gifts. How many more feet of ribbon does he need?
Transcript
- 00:01
Okay Math people Another drill for you Here we go
- 00:04
Brandon needs five feet A ribbon wrap holiday gifts The
- 00:07
chart shown here This one right here represents the number
- 00:10
of ribbons of each length he already has So how
- 00:15
many more feet of ribbon does he need Aren't three
Full Transcript
- 00:19
dots here That's five there and two on the third
- 00:24
thing We feel you brandon Last minute panic wrapping is
- 00:31
the worst Not that we're speaking from personal experience or
- 00:34
anything Each Mark indicates 1 ribbon in the given length
- 00:37
there So calculate the number of marx by the length
- 00:40
of the ribbon and add the results together to find
- 00:42
the length of ribbon Brandon already has a neck It's
- 00:45
just three of these things Time to fourth and five
- 00:47
times in this a third and then two times two
- 00:50
thirds there Adam altogether got three fourth five thirds plus
- 00:53
four thirds And what is that That's nine twelve mil
- 00:56
by both sides top and bottom by three there and
- 00:58
then on top and bottom by four For these guys
- 01:01
get nine Plus twenty is twenty nine and then sixteen
- 01:05
That's forty five twelve and divide what are dividing into
- 01:08
their by three I guess that's forty five so that
- 01:11
be fifteen force That's it So we're looking for the
- 01:13
difference between fifteen force beat and five feet which would
- 01:17
be much easier if we were dealing with fractions of
- 01:19
the same common denominator Per usual We gotta find one
- 01:22
So let's see Five feet is the same as twenty
- 01:26
over four feet and we're going to take twenty over
- 01:28
four and then subtract the fifteen force that gets us
- 01:31
five force So that's it Brandon needs just over one
- 01:34
foot of ribbon We're not entirely sure where he's going
- 01:37
to find it but we're sure he'll you know make 00:01:39.287 --> [endTime] it happens That's it The answer is
Up Next
Given the following equation, what is x?)
Related Videos
At the local candy store down the street, three pounds of Hello Kitty gummy treats cost $6.42. At the candy store across town, five pounds of Hello...
How many hundredths are there in four tenths?
After recently acquiring some baby goats, Edward wants to fence off a rectangular portion of his backyard that encompasses an area of 396 ft2. He h...
Clarence, visiting the former military prison Alcatraz as a tourist, has $25 to spend in the gift store. He wants to buy five greeting cards, each...