Martha cut a whole piece of rope into 8 equal sections. The piece of rope was 36 feet long before she cut it. Whatis the legth in feet of each section of rope?

4.5

Step-by-step explanation:

all you really need to do for this question is 36/8 and once you solve it or even look it up then the answer shows you 4.5. 4.5*8 is also 36 if you needed to check you answer on a quiz, test or even homework :)

hope this helps

answer: b.36 feet

step-by-step explanation:

take the logarithm of both sides (the base of the log doesn't matter):

apply the exponent property - this says that :

distribute the log terms on both sides:

group like terms together:

divide through both sides by the coefficient on :

you can do some additional rewriting here using the properties of the logarithm to simplify things if you like: