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Ritu has a 6 m rope for her rakhi stall. She cuts off the two pieces shown. The rest is cut into pieces of m each. How many such pieces does she get?

Class 8Rational NumbersRational Numbers
  • A8
  • B3
  • C4
  • D12

Step-by-Step Solution

Cut so far: m, so the rest is m. Number of pieces . (8 divides the whole 6 m rope; 3 is the length left, not the number of pieces.)
Answer: C) 4

Key idea: Closure of rationals

Rationals are **closed under addition, subtraction, and multiplication** — the result is always rational.

But **division is closed only if you exclude division by 0**: for any rationals a and b ≠ 0, a ÷ b is rational.

This is more than integers (which weren't closed under division at all) and more than fractions (which sometimes had subtraction lead outside the fractions). Rationals form the smallest 'nice' number system that supports all four basic operations (with the 0-divisor exception).

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