Math Question

<p><a href="http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/7500/rope.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/7500/rope.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I got (C) 1/16 as an answer. Because the rope is always being cut in half (divided by two) the denominator must be equal to an exponent of two: 2,4,8,16,32…</p>

<p>A similar way of doing this is to keep cutting the rope in half until you find one the matches the answer: 1/2–>1/4–>1/8–>1/16.</p>

<p>^Kind of a waste of time for such an easy question.</p>

<p>The answer needs to be in the from 1/(2^x), where x is an integer… so [C]</p>