Question

Fern is helping her mother make decorations for a family gathering. Fern is putting lace around napkins. For each napkin, she needs 3/5 yard of lace. Fern will put the lace on 10 napkins. Use a number model to show the problem. Write an equation to match the model and use the letter Y to represent the amount of lace she will need. How many yards of lace will Fern need?

Answer 1

Fern will need 6 yards of lace, with Y=10(3/5)

Explanation:

For every napkin, she needs 3/5 yards of lace. Since she does this 10 times, we can easily multiply 3/5 by 10 to get 30/5, which is 6.

Y=10*(3/5) would be the equation.