Question

A seamstress needs to cut 15 inches pieces of ribbon from a roll of ribbon that is 9 feet in length what is the greatest number of 15 inches pieces the seamstress can cut from five of these rolls of ribbon

Answer 1

Answer: 36

Explanation:

One roll is of length = 9 feet

1 foot = 12 inches

9 feet = 12 *9 = 108 inches

Since there are 5 rolls

So, total length of 5 rolls = 108 * 5 = 540 inches

Since we are given that A seamstress needs to cut 15-inch pieces of ribbon from a roll of ribbon that is 9 feet in length.

We are supposed to find . What is the greatest number of 15-inch pieces the seamstress can cut from 5 of these rolls of ribbon

So, number of 15-inch pieces the seamstress can cut from 5 of these rolls of ribbon:

Hence the greatest number of 15-inch pieces the seamstress can cut from 5 of these rolls of ribbon is 36