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You are making flags each flag has a red stripe and a 12 inch wide white stripe the width of each flag is 3/4 it's length. The length is 48 inches how wide is the red stripe

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by my math the red strip is 6 inches 
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sounds like there is only 1 stripe making the red stripe 24 inches being that 3/4 of 48 is 36 minus the 12 inches for the white stripe giving u the 24 inch red stripe
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