SOLUTION: leia cuts congruent triangular patches with an area of 45 square centimeters from a rectangular piece of fabric that is 18 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide. how many of the

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Question 957049: leia cuts congruent triangular patches with an area of 45 square centimeters from a rectangular piece of fabric that is 18 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide. how many of the patches can leia cut from 32 pieces of the fabric
Answer by macston(5194) About Me  (Show Source):
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Each rectangle is (18cm)(10cm)=180 square centimeters.
180sqcm/45sqcm=4 She cuts 4 triangles from each rectangle.
(4 patches/rectangle)(32 rectangles)=128 patches
ANSWER: She can cut 128 patches.