Mary is making some shirts for her school's drama department. The fabric store has yards of the fabric she wants in stock. But this quantity of fabric can make only shirts. What length of fabric does Mary need to buy if she wants to sew 2 shirts?
Don't even indicate how much fabric is needed for one shirt. How can we determine what is needed for 2?
the question is "Mary is making some shirts for her school's drama department. The fabric store has 3 1/6 yards of the fabric she wants in stock. But this quantity of fabric can make only 1 1/3 shirts. What length of fabric does Mary need to buy if she wants to sew 2 shirts?" If you copy and paste the question, the fractions don't appear.
To find out how much fabric Mary needs to buy for 2 shirts, we first need to determine how many yards of fabric are needed to make 1 shirt. We can do this by setting up a proportion:
Shirts / Fabric = Shirts / Fabric
Since we know that 7 yards of fabric can make 11 shirts, we can substitute the numbers into the proportion:
11 / 7 = 2 / x
To solve for x (the length of fabric needed for 2 shirts), we can cross-multiply and then divide:
11x = 7 * 2
11x = 14
x = 14 / 11
x ≈ 1.27
Therefore, Mary needs to buy approximately 1.27 yards of fabric to sew 2 shirts.