Jen has 6 yards of fabric and wants to make a new dress and shorts she used 3 1/3 yards of the fabric on her new dress how much fabric does Jen have left for the shorts?
31/3
To find out how much fabric Jen has left for the shorts, we need to subtract the amount of fabric she used on the new dress from the total amount she had at the beginning.
Jen had 6 yards of fabric, and she used 3 1/3 yards on her new dress. To subtract fractions, we need to have a common denominator. The common denominator of 3 and 1/3 is 3. So, we can rewrite 3 1/3 as an improper fraction: 3 + 1/3 = 9/3 + 1/3 = 10/3.
Now we can subtract 10/3 from 6 to find out how much fabric Jen has left for the shorts:
6 - 10/3 = 18/3 - 10/3 = (18 - 10)/3 = 8/3.
Therefore, Jen has 8/3 yards of fabric left for the shorts.