Question

For making $ 12 $ shirts, $ 22 $ metres of cloth is needed. How much cloth is required for each shirt?

Answer 1

Hint: As we know that the above-given question is a word problem. A problem is a mathematical question written as one sentence or more describing a real-life scenario where that problem needs to be solved by the way of mathematical calculation. We can solve the given problem by applying the method of mathematical numbers as the least or highest number of multiple required.

Complete step-by-step solution:
We need to first understand the requirement of the question which is the total length of cloth required for one shirt.
We have a total number of shirts $ = 12 $ and total length of cloth used $ = 22m $ .
Now in these types of questions, we need to do division. Or we can say it is a unitary method.
For $ 12 $ shirts, $ 22 $ metres of cloth is needed.
For $ 1 $ shirt, we need to divide the total cloth used by the number of shirts i.e. $ \dfrac{{22}}{{12}} = 1.833m $ .

Hence the length of cloth required for each shirt is $ 1.833m $ .

Note: We should always be careful what the question is asking. Based on the requirement and by observing all the necessary information that is already available in the question we gather the information and then create an equation or by unitary method whichever is applicable, then we solve the problem and then verify the answer by putting the value in the problem and see whether we get the same answer or not.