SOLUTION: Vinny used 0.25 of a piece of cloth to make a table runner. She then cut the remaining cloth into three equal pieces. She used one of them to make six similar scarves. If each scar

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Question 1163338: Vinny used 0.25 of a piece of cloth to make a table runner. She then cut the remaining cloth into three equal pieces. She used one of them to make six similar scarves. If each scarf was 0.39 m long, what was the original length of the cloth?

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6 times 0.39 meters is 25% of the original length. 25% for the runner and then 25% for each of the three equal pieces.



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John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it