Jamie has 12 yards of fabric to make dresses for dolls. It takes 1 and 1/4 yards of fabric to make each dress. Jamie makes whole dresses only. She will charge $14.95 for each dress. How much money can Jamie make with the fabric she has?
To find out how many dresses Jamie can make with 12 yards of fabric, we need to divide 12 by 1 and 1/4.
First, we need to convert 1 and 1/4 to an improper fraction. Adding 1 and 1/4, we get 5/4.
Now, we can divide 12 by 5/4. To divide fractions, we multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction.
12 * (4/5) = 48/5 = 9.6.
So Jamie can make 9 whole dresses with the fabric she has.
Now, to find out how much money Jamie can make, we multiply the number of dresses by the price per dress.
9 * $14.95 = $134.55.
Therefore, Jamie can make $134.55 with the fabric she has.
To find out how much money Jamie can make with the fabric she has, we first need to determine how many dresses she can make with the given 12 yards of fabric.
Since each dress requires 1 and 1/4 yards of fabric, we can divide the total fabric by the fabric required for each dress:
12 yards / 1 and 1/4 yards/dress = 12 / (5/4) = 48 / 5 = 9 and 3/5 = 9.6 dresses.
Since Jamie makes whole dresses only, she can make a maximum of 9 dresses.
Now, we can calculate the total amount of money Jamie can make by multiplying the number of dresses by the price of each dress:
9 dresses * $14.95/dress = $134.55.
Therefore, Jamie can make a total of $134.55 with the fabric she has.
number of whole dresses
= 12 ÷ 1.25 = 9.6
So she can only make 9 dresses
If she charges 14.95 per dress, then .......