You are cutting strips of cloth out of a 36-inch by 45-inch piece of cloth. You want each strip to be 45 inches long and 3 3/8 inches wide.
Question 2: How many strips can you cut out of the cloth?
since the length of the strip you want matches the length of the available cloth, 45 inches,
all we care about is the width.
What is 36 รท 3 3/8 ?
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To find out how many strips you can cut out of the cloth, you need to determine the maximum number of strips that can fit within the length and width of the cloth.
First, let's consider the length of the strips. Since each strip needs to be 45 inches long and the cloth is also 45 inches long, we can cut a maximum of 1 strip in the length direction.
Next, let's consider the width of the strips. Each strip needs to be 3 3/8 inches wide. To determine how many strips can fit in the width direction, we divide the total width of the cloth by the width of each strip.
To convert the width of the strip from a mixed number (3 3/8) to an improper fraction, we multiply the whole number (3) by the denominator (8), then add the numerator (3) to get 27/8.
So, the number of strips we can cut in the width direction is given by dividing the total width of the cloth (36 inches) by the width of each strip (27/8 inches).
To divide by a fraction, we multiply by its reciprocal, so we multiply 36 by 8/27.
36 inches * (8/27 inches) = (36*8) / 27 = 288/27 = 10 14/27
Since we can't have a fraction of a strip, we can only cut a whole number of strips. Therefore, we can cut a maximum of 10 strips in the width direction.
Taking into account both the length and width, the maximum number of strips we can cut out of the cloth is the smaller of the two numbers, which is 1 (since we can only cut 1 strip in the length direction).
Therefore, you can cut a maximum of 1 strip out of the cloth.