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If each shirt requires 3/8 square yard of cloth, how many shirts can be made from 6 square yards of cloth. please show work.

User Emanuela
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Answer:

16 shirts

Explanation:

To determine the number of shirts that can be made, take the total amount of cloth and divide by the cloth needed per shirt

6 ÷ 3/8

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6 * 8/3

48/3

16

We can make 16 shirts

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