Instructions for a craft project say that the length of a piece of red ribbon should be 7 inches less than the length of a piece of blue ribbon. How long is the red ribbon if the length of the blue ribbon is: 10 inches? Do not include units (inches) in your answer

The red ribbon has a length of 3

Step-by-step explanation:

If the instructions of the project states that the red ribbon should be 7 inches less than the blue ribbon to find out the length of the red ribbon we need to take the length of the blue ribbon and subtract it by 7. The problem states that the blue ribbon is 10 inches long, so we take that and subtract it by 7. So we have:

red ribbon = blue ribbon - 7 = 10 - 7 = 3

3

Step-by-step explanation:

The question is quite simple if you read it properly.

Here, the question says that 2 ribbons are involved (red and blue) and the red ribbons is 7 inches less in lenght than that of the blue ribbon.

The blue ribbon is 10 inches long and red ribbon will then be

X = 10 - 7

X = 3