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Shivani and Kathleen are collecting clothes for a clothing drive. Kathleen collected 1/4 asmany clothes as Shivani did. If Shivani collected 4 1/4 bags of clothes, how many bags ofclothes did Kathleen collect?

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Answer:

Kathleen collected 1 1/16 clothes

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that Kathleen collected 1/4 as many clothes as Shivani did.

Let the number of clothes Shivani collected be represented by x

Then Kathleen collected


(1)/(4)x

Since Shivani collected 4 1/4 bags

It means he collected 17/4 bags.

Kathleen collected

1/4 of 17/4


\begin{gathered} =(1)/(4)*(17)/(4) \\ \\ =(17)/(16) \end{gathered}

Kathleen collected 17/16 clothes , this is the same as 1 1/16 clothes

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