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A parallogram shaped field in a park needs sod. The parallogram has a base of 21.5 meters and a height of 18 meters. The sod is sold in pallets of 50 square meters. How many pallets of sod are needed to fill the field?

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you will need 7.74 pallets of sod


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8 pallets of sod would be used because 21.5*18 is 387 and 387/50 is 7, but then there will be 37 square meters left, so you will need another pallet for that.
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