Question

20 large plastic bottles can be recycled to make 1 fleece jacket how many fleeces can be made with 280 large bottles

Answer 1

We can make 14 jackets

Explanation:

We can write a proportion to solve. Put the number of bottles over the number of jackets

20 bottles 280 bottles

---------------- = --------------

1 jacket x jackets

Using cross products

20x = 280

Divide by 20

20x/20 = 280/20

x =14

We can make 14 jackets