Question

Carrie has a planter box with an area of 4/5 of a square meter. She wants to plant 10 snap pea seeds each with an equal amount of room to grow. What area will she give to school snap pea plant?

Answer 1

Each snap pea plant should be allocated 2/25 square meters of the planter box area to grow, which is found by dividing the total area (4/5 square meters) by the number of plants (10).

Step-by-step explanation:

The question asks how much area should be allocated to each snap pea plant if the total area available is 4/5 of a square meter and there are 10 seeds to plant. To find out the area for each snap pea plant, we divide the total area by the number of plants.

Total area of planter box = 4/5 square meters

Number of snap pea seeds = 10

Area for each plant = Total area ÷ Number of seeds

Area for each plant = 4/5 ÷ 10 = 4/50 or 2/25 square meters per plant.