A.2.8.2 Post-Parade Clean-up

After a parade, a group of volunteers is helping to pick up the trash along a 2-mile stretch of a road. The group decides to divide the length of the road so that each volunteer is responsible for cleaning up equal-length sections.  Find the length of a road section for each volunteer if there are the following numbers of volunteers. Explain or show your reasoning. a. 8 volunteers b. 10 volunteers c. 25 volunteers d. 36 volunteers

Write an equation that would make it easy to find l, the length of a road section in miles for each volunteer, if there are n volunteers.

Find the number of volunteers in the group if each volunteer cleans up a section of the following lengths. Explain or show your reasoning. a. 0.4 mile b. 2/7 mile c. 0.125 mile d. 6/45 mile

Write an equation that would make it easy to find the number of volunteers, n, if each volunteer cleans up a section that is l miles.