An art student uses a roll of wallpaper to decorate two gift boxes the student will use 1 1/3 yards of paper fo one box and 5/6 yars of paper for the other box the paper must be cut into pieces that are 1/6 yard long how many pieces will the student cutr to use for the gift boxes

13 pieces

Step-by-step explanation:

step 1

Convert mixed number to an improper fraction

Multiply by 2/2

step 2

Adds 8/6 yd and 5/6 yd

step 3

Divide the total length of paper used by 1/6 to obtain the number of pieces

a

step-by-step explanation:

the denominator cannot be the same as one of the factors.

8 denominator times 2 denominator = 16

and 7 numerator time 11 = 77

77/16= 77/16 ( they cannot be further simplified)