Question

Dedra is making headband to sell to her friends.Each headbands requires 1 7/8 feets fabric.If dedra plans to make 14 headbands than how much fabric will she need .

Answer 1

26.25 feets

Explanation:

Given:

Each headbands requires 1 7/8 feets fabric

Dedra has to make 14 headbands .

Question asked:

how much fabric will she need to make 14 headbands = ?

Solution:

By applying unitary method :

Length of fabric require to make a headband =
`1(7)/(8)`

=
`(15)/(8)`

Length of fabric require to make 14 headbands =
`14*(15)/(8)`

=
`(210)/(8)`

=
`26.25 feets`

Therefore, Dedra needs 26.25 feets fabric to make 14 headbands.