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ashley wants to crochet a blanket for her new baby cousin. her pattern calls for 900 yards of thick, soft wool. she already has 200 feet of wool left from another project. at the craft store, she notices that each ball has 500 feet of wool. how many balls of wool should she buy?

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By using the concept of subtraction and multiplication, it can be calculated that

Ashley should buy 5 balls

What is subtraction and division?

To find how big or small one number is from the other, then the operation used is called subtraction

Division is the process by which value of single unit can be calculated from the value of multiple unit.

The number to be divided is known as dividend, the number by which the dividend is divided is the divisor, the result obtained is the quotient and the remaining part is the remainder.

There is a well known formula for division

Divisor x Quotient + Remainder = Dividend.

This is a word problem on subtraction and division

Total length of Wool Ashley required = 900 [tex]\times[/tex] 3 = 2700 ft

Length of wool Ashley has = 200 ft

Length of wool Ashley still needed = 2700 - 200 = 2500 ft

Length of wool in each ball = 500

So Number of balls required = 2500 [tex]\div[/tex] 5 = 5

Ashley should buy 5 balls

To learn more about division and subtraction, refer to the link-

https://brainly.com/question/20460320

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