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Old 06-19-2018, 03:23 AM
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Conchalea
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Originally Posted by quiltingcandy
I don't expect extra either. But I do want what I order. And knowing how fabric will shrink if I need 1/4 yard I now buy 1/3 because too often I was getting shorted. 1/4 yard is 9 inches, but all too often I couldn't get 8 inches after it was washed. Recently I asked a lady for 1/3 yard of 14 different fabrics, she told me they only cut 1/4 as the smallest, luckily as I was getting ready to explain 1/3 was larger than 1/4 another lady said she would cut them for me.
Yes, so many people don’t understand fractions at all! Burger King tried to market a 1/3 pound burger years ago but customers thought they were getting less beef that MacDonald’s quarter-pounder so that ploy failed. I see that misunderstanding of fractions a lot.
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