Question

Gusto's Department Store offers gift-wrapping services to their customers, and the manager at Gusto's needs to order more ribbon. Small gift boxes use 21 inches of ribbon, while large ones use 30 inches of ribbon. The manager at Gusto's expects to sell 200 small boxes and 220 large boxes this month. If the ribbon they use is sold by the yard, how many yards of ribbon should the manager order?

Answer 1

Answer: 300 yards of ribbon

Step-by-step explanation:

First of all, because we are working with inches, and need to find an answer in yards, we need to know how many inches are in a yard.

There are 36 inches in a yard.

Next, we need to multiply 21 inches by 200 small boxes, and 30 inches by 220 large boxes. We do this to find out how many inches of ribbon Gusto's needs for each size box.

The products are are 4,200 small boxes, and 6,600 large boxes.

The products (the answers to the multiplication problems) them need to be added together. We do this because we need to find how much total ribbon the manager of Gusto's needs to order.

The sum (the answer to the addition problem) of 4,200 + 6,600 = 10,800.

Lastly, we divide 10,800 by 36 (remember there are 36 inches in a yard). We do this to find the number of total yards of ribbon the manager will need to order for the month.

The quotient (the answer to the division problem) is 300.

Our answer is 300 yards of ribbon.

I hope that helps you out!