How to equally share 3 yards of yarn with 6 people? using a number line.

If you would like to know how to equally share 3 yards of yarn with 6 people, you can calculate this using the following steps:

6 people ... 3 yards of yarn
1 person ... x yards of yarn = ?

6 * x = 3 * 1
6 * x = 3    /6
x = 3/6
x = 1/2 yard of yarn

The correct result would be 1/2 yard of yarn.

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