Question

6.A Clothing pattern requires 2 3/8 yards of fabric for the shirt and 3 1/4 yards of fabric for the matching jacket how much fabric is needed for the total project?

Answer 1

5 5/8 yards of fabric

1) Considering that the whole project consists of shirt and jacket

2 3/8 + 3 1/4

2) Let's convert those mixed numbers into improper fractions

`\begin{gathered} 2(3)/(8)=(8\cdot2+3)/(8)=(16+3)/(8)=(19)/(8) \\ 3(1)/(4)=(4\cdot3+1)/(4)=(13)/(4) \end{gathered}`

Now we can add them:

`(19)/(8)+(13)/(4)=(45)/(8)`

3) Finally, let's turn back to mixed number, dividing 45 by 8:

So, the amount of fabric needed is 5 5/8 for that project