A knitter with 14 skeins of yarn can make 7 scarves
Explanation:
We can use a proportion to solve this
4 skeins of yarn
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2 scarves
That is the information we know. What we want to do is find out how many scarves for 14 skeins of yarn, like this
4 14
-- = ---
2 ?
To get from 4 to 14, you multiply by 3.5. We must to the same thing to the bottom as well. So we multiply 2 by 3.5, which gives us 7
x3.5
4 14
-- = ---
2 7
x3.5
