Nicole used 3/8 of her ribbon to wrap a present. if she used 6 feet of ribbon for the present, how much ribbon did nicole have at first? i cant even begin to figure out how to determine what the first step is,

Your answer is 8 feet.

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Here are the steps:

Let the length of the ribbon be x.

Take 6x over 8 (6x/8) which equals 6.

Then, take 3x/4 which also will be 6 in this case.

3x = 24

x = 24 over 3 (24/3)

x = 8.

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answer: first option i.e. 'a' is correct.

step-by-step explanation:

since we have given that

number of minutes to wrap a small gift box = 4 minutes

we need to find the number of gifts to be wrapped in 5 minutes

since there is a direct variation, as the number of minutes will increase with   number of gifts to be wrapped.

so, let the number of gifts to be wrapped in 5 minutes be x.

so, it becomes,

hence, first option 'a'   is correct.