Question

It takes 2/3 of a yard of fabric to make a pillow case how many pillowcases can be made from 16 yards of fabric?

Answer 1

   x          where x = the total number of pillow cases we can make set them equal to each other and use cross multiplication to solve   2/3 yds          16 yds
pillow case  =       x 2/3(x) = 16 x = 24 Pillow Cases 

Answer 2

16 * 2/3 = 10 Total Pillowcases

Hope this Helped.