"Don't let the big numbers scare you!" Digit squeaked. "Think like a baker. If you have two bowls of dough, what do you do first?" "I'd put them together?" Petya guessed. "Exactly!" Digit cheered. Step 1: The Great Gathering
The ink-elf vanished back into the textbook. Petya wrote down the answer clearly, feeling like a math hero. When the town fair finally arrived, he saw the 50 bows decorating the square and knew exactly how much silk it took to make them. "Don't let the big numbers scare you
Petya added the two rolls together to see the total "mountain" of silk: 120 + 80 = Step 2: The Fair Share "Exactly
💡 Petya realized that each bow used exactly 4 meters of silk. When the town fair finally arrived, he saw
Suddenly, Petya’s pencil began to glow. A tiny, ink-stained elf named Digit hopped onto the page.
It was about a workshop making festive ribbons. The workers had two large rolls of silk. One roll was 120 meters long, and the other was 80 meters. They needed to cut them into smaller pieces of equal length to make beautiful bows for the town fair.
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