"But wait!" the elf cried. "The teacher wants to know how many bows came from each roll!" Petya smiled. He knew what to do now: First roll: 120 ÷ 4 = Second roll: 80 ÷ 4 = 20 bows
Suddenly, Petya’s pencil began to glow. A tiny, ink-stained elf named Digit hopped onto the page.
"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
Petya added the two rolls together to see the total "mountain" of silk: 120 + 80 = Step 2: The Fair Share
Once upon a time in the Sunny Town School, a fourth-grader named Petya sat staring at in his Moro and Bantova math book. The problem felt like a riddle from a grumpy wizard.
💡 Petya realized that each bow used exactly 4 meters of silk.
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.