Arnold had three pieces of different colored strings that are all the same length. Arnold cut the blue string into 2 equal size lengths. he cut the red string into 3 equal-size length, and the green string into 6 equal-size. He needs to cut the strings so each color has the same number of equal-size lengths. What is the least number of equal size lengths each color string could have?

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Brodie Hayden

Mathematics

12 August, 20:07

Arnold had three pieces of different colored strings that are all the same length. Arnold cut the blue string into 2 equal size lengths. he cut the red string into 3 equal-size length, and the green string into 6 equal-size. He needs to cut the strings so each color has the same number of equal-size lengths. What is the least number of equal size lengths each color string could have?

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Case Leonard · Answer 1

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he cut the blue string in half.

he cut the red string in thirds

he cut the green string in sixths.

2 (half) goes into 6

3 (thirds) go into 6

the sixths stay the same