Question

A dressmaker needs to cut 12-inch pieces of ribbon from rolls of ribbon that are 6 feet in length. How many 12-inch pieces can the dressmaker cut from 10 of these rolls of ribbon?

Before you try that problem, answer the question below.
How many \textbf{inches}inches of ribbon does the dressmaker have, in total?

Answer 1

The dressmaker has a total of 720 inches of ribbon from the 10 rolls.

Step-by-step explanation:

We first need to convert the length of each roll from feet to inches. Since there are 12 inches in a foot, and each roll is 6 feet long, we multiply 6 by 12 to find the number of inches per roll:

6 feet/roll × 12 inches/foot = 72 inches/roll

Next, the dressmaker has 10 rolls of ribbon, so to find the total number of inches, we multiply the number of inches per roll by the number of rolls:

72 inches/roll × 10 rolls = 720 inches in total.