Length

Lisa and Max each had a roll of ribbon with the same length. They cut their roll of ribbon into shorter pieces. Each piece of Lisa’s ribbon was 6 cm. Each piece of Max’s ribbon was 10 cm. After cutting, Lisa had 16 more pieces of ribbon than Max. What was the length of each roll of ribbon?

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Zainal had 5 m of ribbon at first. He used 1.4 m of it to wrap a present and some ribbon to decorate 2 cards. He had 2.6 m of ribbon left. Which of the following is the length of ribbon for each card?

(1) 1 m   (2) 2 m   (3) 0.7 m   (4) 0.5 m

answer (1) (2) (3) (4)