Question

Travis bought 12 feet of fabric that was 2 1/3feet wide to make curtains. He used 1/4Of the fabricto make a long set of curtains and the rest to make 5 short sets. Find the area of the fabricused for each of the short sets. Solve on paper. Then check your work on Zearn.The area of each set of short curtains isft2.

Answer 1

4 1/5 ft^2 (or 21/5 ft^2)

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1: 12 ft of fabric that was 2 1/3 wide =

`\begin{gathered} 12*2(1)/(3) \\ \text{ = 12}*(7)/(3) \\ \text{ = 4}*7 \\ \text{ = 28ft}^2 \end{gathered}`

Step 2: He used 1/4 of the fabric to make a long set of curtains

`\begin{gathered} 28*(1)/(4) \\ \text{ = 7ft}^2 \end{gathered}`

Step 3: The rest of the fabric

`28\text{ - 7 = 21ft}^2`

Step 4: The rest to make 5 short sets

`\begin{gathered} 21*(1)/(5)\text{ } \\ \text{ = }(21)/(5) \\ \text{ = 4}(1)/(5)ft^2 \end{gathered}`

Hence, the area of the fabric used for each of the short sets is 4 1/5 ft^2.