Question

A costume designer has 40 yards of red fabric to make costumes for a musical in which 8 performers will wear red dresses and 14 people will wear red scarves. The costume maker uses 3 3 yards for each dress, and yard for a scarf. a) After making the dresses and scarves, the costume designer uses the leftover fabric to make some sashes for the dresses. If each sash uses 1 yard of fabric, how many sashes can be made?

Answer 1

# Complete question should be-

A costume designer has 40 yards of red fabric to make costumes for a musical in which 8 performers wear red dresses and 14 people will wear red scarves. The costumer maker uses 3 ½ yards of red fabric for each dress, and ¾ yard of fabric for each scarf.After making the dresses and scarves, the costume designer uses the remaining fabric to make sashes. Each sash uses ¼ yard of fabric. How many sashes can be made?

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# Answer= 6 sashes

# Explanation-

Total fabric used for dresses= 8×3.5= 28 yards

Total fabric used for scarfs=14×0.75= 10.5 yards

Remaining fabric=40-28-10.5= 1.5 yards

Sashes made=1.5/0.25= 6 sashes.

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Answer 2

Given:

40 yards of red fabric

8 performers will wear red dresses and 3.5 yards for each dress

14 people will wear red scarves and 0.75 yard for a scarf

The leftover fabric to make some sashes for the dresses

Each sash uses 1 yard

To find:

How many sashes can be made

Solution:

Total fabric used for dresses = 8 × 3.5

Hence, 28 yards is used to make dresses.

Total fabric used for scarfs = 14 × 0.75

Hence, 10.5 yards  is used to make scarfs.

The fabric remaining = 40 - 28 - 10.5

1.5 yards  is left unused.

Therefore,

The number of sashes made = 1.5 / 1

Hence, 1 sash can be made.