lura has 4 yards of material.she is making clothes for her doll. each dress requires 1/6 yards of material. how many dresses will she be able to make?
6 * 4 = ?
Michael is helping with the school play by measuring fabric for the costumes he needs 48 feet of fabric he has 12.5 yards of fabric how many more yards of fabric does he need
10
To find out how many dresses Lura can make, we need to divide the total amount of material she has (4 yards) by the amount required for each dress (1/6 yards).
To divide fractions, we invert the divisor and multiply. In this case, we multiply 4 by the reciprocal of 1/6.
1/6 can be flipped to become 6/1.
So, the calculation becomes:
4 * (6/1) = 24/1 = 24.
Therefore, Lura will be able to make 24 dresses with the 4 yards of material she has.