Problema Solution
Farah has two pieces of ribbon, one 10 inches long and the other 5 inches long. To decorate an album, she wants to cut them up to produce many pieces of ribbon that are all of the same lengths, with no ribbon left over. What is the greatest length, in inches, that she can make them?
Answer provided by our tutors
The greatest length is 5 inches since 10 = 2*5.
So she needs to cut the 10 inches long piece on half to get 2 pieces of 5 inches each.
Now she has 3 pieces of ribbon, each 5 inches long.