Question

A dressmaker needs to cut 6-inch pieces of ribbon from rolls of ribbon that are 9 feet in length. How many 6-inch pieces can the dressmaker cut from 15 of these rolls of ribbon? Before you try that problem, answer the question below. How many inches of ribbon does the dressmaker have, in total?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Answer:

60 pieces

Step-by-step explanation:

What we know:

There are 12 inches in a foot

There are 5 6-feet lengths of ribbon

So, we simply need to multiply.

Since there are 12 inches in a foot, and we only need 6 inches for each one, we can see that she makes 2 pieces for each foot.

Multiply

2*6=12

She makes 12 pieces for each length of ribbon.

Now multiply it by 5

12*5= 60

She can make 60 pieces from 5 of these length of ribbon.

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