jane is making a suit which requires 25/8 yards for the jacket and 1 3/4 yards for the skirt. what's the total amount of materia

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eduard

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jane is making a suit which requires 25/8 yards for the jacket and 1 3/4 yards for the skirt. what's the total amount of materia

l she needs?

Mathematics

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FromTheMoon [43] · Answer 1 · 2022-03-14T21:45:49+03:00

We add 25/8 yards and 1 3/4 yards together.

First we convert 1 3/4 to an imp. fraction 7/4.

In order to add fractions, they must have the same common denominator. So we multiply both sides of the fraction 7/4 by 2 to get 14/8. Now we can add 25/8 yards and 14/8 yards together to get 39/8 yards.