Lucy can make a pair of shorts for her daughter out of 5/8 yard of fabric. If she has 5/2 yards of fabric, how many pairs of sho

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rts will that make? Let s be the total number of shorts that Lucy can make. Use proportional reasoning to solve for s.

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snow_lady [41] · Answer 1 · 2022-05-20T16:15:50+03:00

Answer:

first blank: 1

second blank: 5/2

third blank: 5/2

fourth blank: 4

Step-by-step explanation:

this is just what I put so sorry if it’s wrong but here’s how I got them:

second blank: # yards / # shorts

third blank: 5/2 times 1 = 5/2

fourth blank: 5/8 s times 8/5 equals s and 5/2 times 8/5 equals 4 therefore s=4