Rachel used 3/8 of her money to buy some blouses and 2/5 of the remainder to buy 2 pair of pants. a pair of pants costs 3 times as much as a blouse. how many blouses did she buy?

The answer is: 9 blouses.

The explanation is shown below:

1. The remainder is:

2. She used of the remainder to buy 2 pair of pants:

3. Then, she used of the money to buy 2 pairs of pants. For each one she used:

÷= of the money for a pair of pants.

4.  A pair of pants costs 3 times as much as a blouse, therefore you can write the following expression:

Where is the cost of 1 blouse

5. Solve for :

for each blouse

6. If she used of the money for 1 blouse, you have the following amount of blouses bought with of the money:

Where is the total number of blouses.

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