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a seamstress needs to cut 15inch pieces of ribbon from a rool of ribbon thats is 9 feet in lenght.What is the greatest number of 15inch pieces the seamstress can cut from 5 of rolls of ribbon?
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a seamstress needs to cut 15inch pieces of ribbon from a rool of ribbon thats is 9 feet in lenght.What is the greatest number of 15inch pieces the seamstress can cut from 5 of rolls of ribbon?

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there are 108 inches in 9 feet but there are 5 so 108×5= 540 so to get your answer you need to divide that by 15 which equals 36. so you can make 36 pieces
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