A pattern requires #2##1/8# yards of fabric for the shirt and #2##3/4# yards of fabric for the pants. How much fabric is needed for the total project?

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Rachel
May 31, 2018

So, the total fabric is the shirt and the pants: #2 1/8 + 2 3/4#

Let's get #3/4# to have the same denominator as #1/8#:

#3/4 xx 2/2 = 6/8#

So now we have #2 1/8 + 2 6/8#. We add the whole numbers together and add the fractions: #4 + 1/8 + 6/8# or #6 7/8#

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