Quote:A dollmaker uses 1 and 2/3 yards of fabric to make a doll. How many dolls can be made with 8 and 1/3 yards?
Here is what I did ..tell me what I am doing wrong....
1 2/3 = 5/3
x 8 1/3 = 25/3 5/3 divided by 25/3= 5/3 x 3/5 =15/75 dolls?
What you did wrong is: you did 5/3 divided by 25/3 when you should have done 25/3 divided by 5/3, which equals
5 - the number of dolls that could be made with 8 and 1/3 yards.
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Quote:I bought 0.25 pounds of cherries, 1.09 pounds of oranges and 2.34 pounds of apples. How many pounds of fruit did I buy?
add all three: total 4.77 pounds is this correct? This is too simple, am I missing a step?
The problem is that you added the 1.09 pounds of oranges twice. The correct answer is:
3.68 pounds.
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