Vita has a piece of ribbon that is 5 meters long. She cuts the ribbon into pieces that are each 1/3 meter long. How many pieces does she cut?

Question

Vita has a ribbon that is 5 meters long.  She cut it into 1/3 size prices.  How many pieces does she cut? 

 

 

Answer 1

15 pieces each of length 1/3 m can be created by cutting 14 times (without folding the ribbon in an overlapped way).