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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.
The decimal equivalent of 3/10 is .3