SOLUTION: you have a length of cloth that is 2 3/4 yards long and 1 1/14 yards wide. You want to cut the cloth into 20 squares that are 1 1/4 feet long on each side. Do you have enough clot

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Question 549884: you have a length of cloth that is 2 3/4 yards long and 1 1/14 yards wide. You want to cut the cloth into 20 squares that are 1 1/4 feet long on each side. Do you have enough cloth to cut all the squares? explain.
Answer by nyc_function(2741) About Me  (Show Source):
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There are 3 feet in one yard.
So, first convert 2_3/4 yards and 1_1/14 yards to feet.

Then find the area of the rectangle using Area = length times width.

Then find the area of the square using Area = (side of square) times (side of square). Then multiply this area by 20 representing the 20 squares you want to divide the rectangle into.

Finally divide area of rectangle by the area of the square times 20.

In other words, the final fraction you need to simplify is:

(area of rectangle, in feet)/(area of square times 20) =