A square is made with a `24.8` centimetre long rope. What is the length of its side?

Explanation

To find the length of a side, `24.8` must divided into four equal parts `24.8` centimetes means 24 centimetres and 8 millimetres.
The remaining 8 millimetres divided into four equal parts give 2 millimetres each.

Thus the length of a side is 6 centimetes and 4 millimetres, that is 6,2 centimetres.
This probiem also we can write using numbers only. `24.8 div 4`
The way we found the answer can also be written using just numbers. `.24 .8` mean 24 and 8 tenths. Dividing each.by 4 gives 6 and 2 tenths, that is `6.2`. These operations can bewritten in short hand as shown on the right.