Darcie wants to crochet a minimum of 333 blankets to donate to a homeless shelter. Darcie crochets at a rate of \dfrac{1}{15}
15
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start fraction, 1, divided by, 15, end fraction of a blanket per day. She has 606060 days until when she wants to donate the blankets, but she also wants to skip crocheting some days so she can volunteer in other ways.
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To find out how many blankets Darcie can crochet in total based on her crochet rate and the number of days she has, we can use the formula:
Total blankets = crochet rate × number of days
Let's plug in the given values:
crochet rate = 1/15 blankets per day
number of days = 60
Total blankets = (1/15) × 60
= (1/15) × (60/1) (multiply fractions by the reciprocal of the denominator)
= (1/1) × (4/5) (cancel out common factors)
= 4/5
= 0.8
Therefore, Darcie can crochet a total of 0.8 blankets.
However, since she wants to crochet a minimum of 333 blankets, let's calculate how many more blankets she needs to crochet.
Additional blankets needed = minimum blankets - total blankets
= 333 - 0.8
= 332.2
So, Darcie needs to crochet an additional 332.2 blankets.
Now, Darcie wants to skip crocheting on some days to volunteer in other ways. Let's assume she skips 'x' days. The number of days she actually crochets will be 'number of days - x'.
The new total blankets will be:
New total blankets = crochet rate × (number of days - x)
Since we want to donate a minimum of 333 blankets, we can set up the following equation:
crochet rate × (number of days - x) = 333
Substituting the values we already know:
(1/15) × (60 - x) = 333
To solve for 'x', we can multiply both sides of the equation by 15:
(1/15) × (60 - x) × 15 = 333 × 15
(60 - x) = 4995
Next, let's solve for 'x' by subtracting 60 from both sides of the equation:
60 - x - 60 = 4995 - 60
-x = 4935
Finally, multiplying both sides of the equation by -1 gives us:
x = -4935
Since 'x' represents the number of days she wants to skip, it cannot be negative. Therefore, it is not possible for Darcie to skip a negative number of days.
So, Darcie cannot skip any days if she wants to crochet a minimum of 333 blankets within 60 days.
care to write
"\dfrac{1}{15}
15
1
start fraction, 1, divided by, 15, end fraction"
so we can actually read it? and stop repeating the other numbers?
hint fractions look like 2/3, 1 1 1/2, etc.