Brianna is knitting scarf and sweaters. She uses 0.6 of a meter of yarn for each scarf and 3.1 meters of yarn for each sweater. She only has 15 meters of yarn remaining select each combination of scarves and sweaters she can knit without running out of yarn

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Hadassah Jones

14 July, 11:17

Brianna is knitting scarf and sweaters. She uses 0.6 of a meter of yarn for each scarf and 3.1 meters of yarn for each sweater. She only has 15 meters of yarn remaining select each combination of scarves and sweaters she can knit without running out of yarn

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Chang · Answer 1

Therefore, we have total 46 combination of scarves and sweaters.

Step-by-step explanation:

We know that Brianna is knitting scarf and sweaters. She uses 0.6 of a meter of yarn for each scarf and 3.1 meters of yarn for each sweater.

She only has 15 meters of yarn remaining.

We write combination of scarves and sweaters:

1 scarve and 1 sweaters

2 scarves and 1 sweater

3 scarves and 1 sweater

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19 scarves and 1 sweater

1 scarve and 2 sweaters

2 scarves and 2 sweaters

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14 scarves and 2 sweaters

1 scarve and 3 sweaters

2 scarves and 3 sweaters

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9 scarves and 3 sweaters

1 scarve and 4 sweaters

2 scarves and 4 sweaters

3 scarves and 4 sweaters

4 scarves and 4 sweaters

Therefore, we have total 46 combination of scarves and sweaters.