The Student Council members make ribbons to sell for Spirit Week. Each ribbon is 3 inches long. What is the greatest number of ribbons the Student Council members can make with a total ribbon length of 18 feet 5 inches? Show your work on paper. what would answer be.

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well we could do it by division or we could use our heads.
every foot of ribbon holds 4 of the three inchers so
18 feet holds 4*18 = 72 so far
Now that last 5 inches only holds one more so
73

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