7/6
6 can go into 7 once
1 and 1/6
Answer: 1 1/6
He uses 1/5 OF 5/6 of a yard. That "of" is very important, because it indicates that, to find the answer, you multiply the two together.
That being said (1/5) times (5/6) =5/30, which can be reduced to 1/6 yds to make the frame
Answer is shown in the picture
To do this we take the outlier off the parenthesis (the 4) and multiply it by the two numbers inside the parenthesis...
4*7 + 4*8
28+32