Question

Karen is making a set of costumes for the school play using a piece of cloth. She reduces the length of the cloth she intends to use by 10%. If the initial length of the cloth that she wanted to use was 15 meters, what is the new length of the cloth she wants to use?

Answer 1

The new length is 13.5 meters

Explanation:

Here, we are interested in calculating the new length of the cloth she wants to use

What we know from the question is that she is making a reduction of 10% from an initial of 15 meters

Thus, the length she is to use can be calculated by first getting what 10% of 15 meters is

Mathematically, that would be ;

10/100 * 15 = 1.5 meters

We now subtract this from the total of 15 meters

= 15 meters - 1.5 meters = 13.5 meters