Question

A seamstress needs to cut 15-inch pieces of ribbon from a roll of ribbon that is 9 feet in length. What is the greatest number of 15-invh pieces the seamstress can cut from 5 of these rolls of ribbon? Show your work. Please put the right answer. Thx

Answer 1

each roll is 9 ft....so 5 rolls = (9 * 5) = 45 ft
1 ft = 12 inches....so 45 ft = (12 * 45) = 540 inches

540/15 = 36 <=== she can cut 36 fifteen inch pieces of ribbon

Answer 2

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:

`\frac{\text{Total length of 5 rolls}}{15 inch}`

`(540)/(15)`

`36`

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