Question

ruth bought 12.5 yards of fabric for $4.50 to cover some old pillows. She sells each pillow for $23.99 at her yard sale. After subtracting the cost of the fabric, how much money dose Ruth earn if she sellers all the pillows

Answer 1

If she uses 2.5 yards for each pillow, then she is going to cover 5 pillows ( 12 yards / (2.5 yards/pillow))

After selling all pillows she would receive $ 119.95. ($23.99*5)

Then, we subtract the cost of the fabric from $119.95 to find the earnings.

$119.95 - $ 4.5 = $115.45

The answer is $115.45