Question

You are working as a sales clerk in a fabric store and need to determine the price on some fabric. The fabric store sells for $6.97 per yard and the customer is purchasing 7/8 of a yard. How much would you charge

Answer 1

$6.10

Explanation:

Given the fabric store sells the fabric for $6.97 per yard

Given that a customer buys 7/8 yard of fabric.

Let the cost the customer pays be x then

`1 yard---->6.97`

`(7)/(8) yard---->x`

on cross multiplication we get

`x\time 1=6.97* (7)/(8)`

x=6.01

Therefore the amount the customer should pay is $6.01