A family buys groceries for $154.35, including $10.37 in taxes. The bill includes $27.83 worth of items that are not taxable. Fi
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For this case we have the following statement:
<em>"You have 2 meters of fabric and you cut 85% to make curtains, 50% of the rest to make the strips that hold it. How many centimeters of fabric were left?"</em>
So, we have:
2 meters ---------> 100%
x ----------------------> 85%
Where "x" represents the amount of fabric meters equivalent to 85%.
Thus, 1.7 meters of fabric were used to make curtains.
There are 0.3 meters of fabric left, of which half (50%) is used to make the strips that hold the curtain. That is to say:
Thus, 0.15 meters of fabric remain.
Thus, 15 cm of fabric remain
Answer;
15 cm