Question

Kayla bought 2 1/2 yards of blue cloth for 6.97 and 1 1/2 yards of yellow cloth for half as much. She used 1/4 of the blue cloth to make her mother a apron. How much cloth did it take to make the apron

Answer 1

`\begin{gathered} 2\cdot(1)/(2)=(4+1)/(2)=(5)/(2) \\ 1\cdot(1)/(2)=(2+1)/(2)=(3)/(2) \end{gathered}`

She used 1/4 of the blue cloth to make her mother a apron:

`(5)/(2)*(1)/(4)=(5)/(8)=0.625`

She used 5/8 yd or 0.625yd of blue coth to make the apron