Question

Mary is making pillows for her life skills class. she bought 2 1/2 yards of fabric. her total cost was 15 what was the cost per yard

Answer 1

Cost divided by length of fabric

convert to impropert fractions

2 and 1/2=2+1/2=4/2+1/2=5/2


cost/length=$\frac{15}{\frac{5}{2}}$
times the whole thing by $\frac{{2}{5}}{\frac{2}{5}}$
we get
$\frac{\frac{30}{5}}{\frac{10}{10}}=$
$\frac{6}{1}=6$

cost was $6 per yard

Answer 2

IT would be 6 because the guy above me explained it well.