Question

Andi needs 5 1/2 yards of fabric for a project. She has a piece that is 3 1/4 at school and a piece that is 1 1/2 yards at home. How much more fabric does she need?

Answer 1

Andi needs an additional 1 3/4 yards of fabric for her project.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how much more fabric Andi needs, we need to add the lengths of the two pieces of fabric she already has and subtract the total from the amount she needs.

Given that Andi has a piece of fabric that is 3 1/4 yards long and another piece that is 1 1/2 yards long, we can add these two lengths together:

3 1/4 + 1 1/2 = 3 2/4 + 1 2/2 = 4 3/4 yards.

Andi needs a total of 5 1/2 yards for her project, so we subtract the length of the fabric she already has from this total:

5 1/2 - 4 3/4 = 5 2/2 - 4 3/4 = 5/2 - 3/4 = 10/4 - 3/4 = 7/4 = 1 3/4 yards.

Answer 2

`(3)/(4) Yards`

Step-by-step explanation:

Andi needs
`5(1)/(2)` yards of fabric for a project.

`\text{At School, she has: } 3(1)/(4) yards\\\text{At Home, she has: } 1(1)/(2) yards\\\text{Length of Fabric already owned by Andi= } 3(1)/(4) +1(1)/(2)\\=4+(1)/(4)+(1)/(2)\\=4(3)/(4)\\\text{Therefore, the Length of Fabric needed by Andi= } 5(1)/(2)-4(3)/(4)\\=(3)/(4) Yards`

Andi needs
`(3)/(4) Yards` more of Fabric.