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#