Nicole used only a fraction of her ribbon to wrap the present
the length of ribbon she used is 6 feeet
so lets name the length of the ribbon she had originally as X
the fraction of X she used was - 3/8 of X
so we can write the following equation
when of function is used we multiply
3X = 6*8
3X = 48
X = 16
therefore length of the original ribbon piece Nicole had was 16 feet
