Kelly has a ribbon that is 60 inches long. She cuts off 40% of the ribbon for an art project. while working on it, she decides she only needs 75% of the piece she cut off. How much ribbon does Kelly end up using in her project

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10 January, 08:45

Kelly has a ribbon that is 60 inches long. She cuts off 40% of the ribbon for an art project. while working on it, she decides she only needs 75% of the piece she cut off. How much ribbon does Kelly end up using in her project

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Ivy Preston · Answer 1

You take 60x. 4 to see you are left with 36 inches 24x. 75 to see what 75% of the 40% cut off is and you see she only needed 18 so you add back the Extra 6 cut off to the leftover 36 and you have 42 inches of ribbon left