Question

Olivia is making scarves each scarf will have 5 rectangles and 2/5 of the rectangles will be purple how many purple rectangles does she need for 3 scarves

Answer 1

Out of every 5 rectangles 2 shall be purple.

3 scarves have 3 times 5 rectangles.

Thus they shall be 3 times 2 that are purple.

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