Question

Jill is making a long cape. she needs 4 1/3 yards of blue fabric for the outside of the cape. She needs 3 2/3 of purple fabric for the lining of the cape. How much more blue fabric than purple fabric should jill buy show your work(help-)

Answer 1

Jill needs to get 2/3 more fabric

Answer 2

We need 2/3 yards more blue fabric.

Explanation:

To find how much more blue fabric than purple fabric, we need to subtract the blue fabric from the purple fabric.

4 1/3 - 3 2/3

We need to borrow from the 4

3 3/3 + 1/3 - 3 2/3

3 4/3 - 3 2/3

2/3

We need 2/3 yards more blue fabric.