Charity has an 8.5-inch by 11-inch piece of paper she wants to cut into four 2-inch by 11-inch strips. To figure out if her paper is wide enough to do this, she subtracted the total width needed for the four strips of paper from the total width of the paper and got 3.

What does the 3 mean in this situation?
A.
She needs 3 more inches to make four 2-inch by 11-inch strips.
B.
She will have 3 inches of the 8.5-inch by 11-inch piece of paper left over.
C.
Her calculations are wrong because there should only be 0.5 inches of paper left over.
D.
Her calculations are wrong because there should be more than 3 inches of paper left over.

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facundo3141592 facundo3141592 · Answer 1 · 2022-08-26T14:22:20+02:00

the correct option is C.

"Her calculations are wrong because there should only be 0.5 inches of paper left over."

We know that the dimensions of the paper are 8.5 inches by 11 inches.

Now, she wants to cut it into 2 inch by 11 inch strips.

Now, notice that if you have 4 of these strips, the width will be:

W = 4*2in = 8in

If we subtract this to the original width, we get:

8.5in - 8in = 0.5in

So what she should got is 0.5 instead of 3, then we conclude that the correct option is C.

"Her calculations are wrong because there should only be 0.5 inches of paper left over."

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