Question

A gardener is planning to fill her garden with mulch. She plots it on a grid to plan how much she will need. The garden is in the shape of a rectangle with vertices at (2, 5) (8, 5) (8, 3) and (2, 3). One bag of mulch covers 6ft2 and costs $5.25. How much will it cost her to cover her garden?

Answer 1

$10.50

Explanation:

If you draw the points on a grid, you will see that the length of the rectangle is 8 -2 = 6 feet & width of the rectangle is 5 -3 = 2 feet.

Hence the area of the rectangle is 6 * 2 = 12 feet^2

Since one bag cover 6 ft^2, he will need 2 bags to cover 12 ft^2.

Each bag costs 5.25, so 2 bags will cost 5.25 * 2 = $10.50

Gardner will need $10.50 to cover the garden