Karen is making a set of costumes for the school play using a piece of cloth. She reduces the length of the cloth she intends to use by 10%. If the initial length of the cloth that she wanted to use was 15 meters, what is the new length of the cloth she wants to use?

The new length is 13.5 meters

Step-by-step explanation:

Here, we are interested in calculating the new length of the cloth she wants to use

What we know from the question is that she is making a reduction of 10% from an initial of 15 meters

Thus, the length she is to use can be calculated by first getting what 10% of 15 meters is

Mathematically, that would be;

10/100 * 15 = 1.5 meters

We now subtract this from the total of 15 meters

= 15 meters - 1.5 meters = 13.5 meters