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Lynn paid $12.21 for ribbon. The cost per yard was $1.48.
How many yards did she get?

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There are 3 ways you can solve this.
1: You have a price for every 3 yards, you have a total purchase of 24 yards. You can either figure out the price for 1 yard and multiply that by 24. Or you can divide 24 by 3 to find out how many sets of 3 yards Lynn bought.

2: If you try to find the price for 1 yard. We have the price for 3 yards is 6.33 so 3 yards = 6.33 We divide each side by 3 and we get y=2.11 so 1 yard is $2.11. Lynn bought 24 yards so we need to multiply the price for 1 yard by 24, so 2.11 times 24 = $50.64.

3: Let’s solve it now by figuring out how many sets of 3 yards Lynn bought and figuring out the price form there. So, we know the price is for every 3 yards. 24 is divisible by 3 and equals 8. So Lynn bought 8 sets of 3 yards of ribbon. 8 sets at a price of 6.33 per set. We now multiply the set price by the number of sets. 8 times 6.33 = $50.64.

Notice the answers are the same, we just went about finding them in different ways.
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Answer:

8.25 yards of ribbon

Explanation:

All you have to do is divide the prices and then you get the amount of ribbon she bought

Lynn paid $12.21 for ribbon. The cost per yard was $1.48. How many yards did she get-example-1
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