Question

The only garments that a particular factory produces are dresses and shirts. It produces three dresses for every five shirts it makes. If the factory produced a total of 72 garments today, how many dresses did it make?

Answer 1

27

Explanation:

Answer 2

The factory makes 27 dresses.

Step-by-step explanation:

• It produces three dresses for every five shirts.
• Let x be the sets of five shirts produced.
• Therefore, x sets of three dresses are produced along with five shirts.

Total garments = number of shirts + number of dresses

⇒ 72 = 5x + 3x

⇒ 72 = 8x

⇒ x = 9

The number of dresses is 3x = 3(9) = 27 dresses.