Jody's new jeans are 30 inches long. They need to be shortened 1 1/2 inches. How long will they be after are shortened?
28 1/2 + 1 1/2 = 30
it should be 30- 1 1/2 the way damon has it setup is to check your answer
30 1/2
To find out how long Jody's jeans will be after they are shortened, we need to subtract the length to be shortened from the original length.
Jody's new jeans are 30 inches long, and they need to be shortened by 1 1/2 inches. To subtract 1 1/2 inches from 30 inches, we can convert the 1 1/2 inches into a decimal by dividing the numerator (1) by the denominator (2). This gives us 0.5 inches.
So, we can subtract 0.5 inches from 30 inches:
30 inches - 0.5 inches = 29.5 inches
Therefore, Jody's jeans will be 29.5 inches long after they are shortened.