Question

Deborah needs to make 16 costumes for the school play. Each costume requires 2 and 1/4 yards of material. How many yards of material will she need ? If she had 35.5 yards is that enough ?

Answer 1

35.5 wouldn’t be enough. She needs 2 1/4 of yards of material, first you would need to convert the fraction into a decimal and 1/4 is .25 which gives you 2.25 now you multiply 16 x 2.25 which gives you 36. That’s why 35.5 wouldn’t be enough.