Yoshio is cutting fabric to make tenugui he needs a total of 5 3/4 yards of fabric he should buy 2 1/4 yards fabric. Yoshio wants to know how many more yards of fabric he should buy

Let y be the number of yards of fabric Yoshio should buy.
Write an equation to describe the situation.
2 1/4 + y = 5 3/4
How many more yards of should should Yoshio buys?
?yards

Yoshio should buy 3 1/2 yards of fabric.