A seamstress has a piece of cloth that is 3 yards long she cuts it into shorter lengths of 16 inches each. how many of the shorter pieces can she cut?

In this question the vital information that a person needs to have is the conversion of yard to inches. Once that is done, the question becomes easy as most of the required information's are already given in the question.

1 yard = 36 inches

Then

3 yards = 36 * 3 inches

= 108 inches.

Now let us get down to finding the answer to the question.

Length of the cloth that needs to be cut into shorter lengths = 3 yards

= 108 inches

Length of the shorter pieces = 16 inches

Then

umber of shorter pieces that can be cut = 108/16

= 6.75

So from the above deduction we can easily conclude that 6 shorter pieces of 16 inches can be cut and still there will be a little excess piece of cloth remaining.