Aida has a piece of ribbon that is 5/4 meters long. Which expression can be used to find on many pieces of ribbon Aida will have after she has cut the large ribbon into 1/4 meter pieces

Aida has a piece of ribbon that is 54 meters long Which expression can be used to find on many pieces of ribbon Aida will have after she has cut the large ribbo class=

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Okay, here we have this:

Aida has 5/4 meters of ribbon, and she makes pieces of 1/4 meter, the problem ask us the expression that determines how many pieces she will get:

So, according with this we have here the following division:

Initial size=5/4 meters

Pieces size=1/4 meters

Number of pieces=Initial size / Pieces size

[tex]\frac{5}{4}\div\frac{1}{4}[/tex]

This means that the correct answer is option A.