By direct division, we will find that the length of each piece of rope is 10.5m
So e start with a 42 meter long rope and we cut it into 4 equal parts, then we know that each one of these pieces will have a length equal to:
L = (42m/4)
To perform that division, you can see that 42 is not a multiple of 4, so we can write:
L = (40m + 2m)/4 = (40m/4) + (2m/4)
The first quotient is just equal to 10m, while the second one is:
(2m/4) = (1m/2) = 0.5m
Then we have:
L = (40m/4) + (2m/4) = 10m + 0.5m = 10.5m
Each piece of rope has a length of 10.5m
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