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Please help!! ELEN needs 9 feet of fabric to make a skirt if ELEN has 18 feet of fabric how many skirts can she make?

Please help!! ELEN needs 9 feet of fabric to make a skirt if ELEN has 18 feet of fabric how many skirts can she make?
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Please help!! ELEN needs 9 feet of fabric to make a skirt if ELEN has 18 feet of fabric how many skirts can she make?

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User Cheruiyot Felix
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As 9 feet of fabric are needed for one skirt, and Arlen has double that amount of fabric, she can make two skirts
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User Ali Mirzaei
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We can solve this by setting up a proportion:

9 feet/1 skirt= 18 feet/ x skirts
(9)x=(1)(18)
9x=18
x=2

She can make 2 skirts.
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