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Noelle is making dresses for her dolls in which each doll uses 1 5/8 yards of fabric. If she bought 8 1/4 yards of fabric, how many dresses an she make?

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divide 5/8 in 1 5/8 first. and get 0.625 now take the one and get 1.625.
now take the 8 1/4 and do the same to get 8.25
now divide 8.25 by 1.625.
and get 5.07692308
so the answer is 5
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