Question

A clothing designer had 1,734 meters of fabric to make Identical sweaters, of all the same size if each sweater used 3.4 meters of fabric, how many sweaters could be made

Answer 1

Therefore 510 number of Sweaters can be made in 1734 meters cloth.

Explanation:

Given:

A clothing designer had 1,734 meters of fabric to make Identical sweaters

i.e Total Cloth available = 1734 meters

Cloth use for One Sweater = 3.4 meters

To Find:

Number of Sweaters = ?

Solution:

By Unitary Method we have

For 3.4 meter cloth,

Number of Sweater = 1

Therefore for 1734 meter cloth,

Number of Sweater = ?

`\textrm{Number of Sweaters}=(1734)/(3.4)=510`

Therefore 510 number of Sweaters can be made in 1734 meters cloth.