A sporting goods manufacturer requires 5/8 yd of fabric to make a pair of soccer shorts. How many goers can be made from 35 yards of fabric?

1 Answer
Jul 20, 2018

You can make 56 pairs of shorts from 35 yards of fabric.

Explanation:

To make the problem visually easier, convert 35 yards to a fraction with 8 as the denominator.

35=280/8

Since we know that we need 5/8 yd of fabric for one pair of shorts we can display it in the equation, where x is the number of shorts.

(5/8)x=280/8

Solve for x
5x=280

x=56