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A bag of fertilizer covers 2500 square feet of lawn. Find how many bags of a rectangular lawn 170 feet by 110 feet

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you can find how many bags you need dividing the square feet of the place by the square feet the fertilizer cover, so:

170*110=18700 square feet (area of the place)

18700/2500=7.48

so you will need 8 bags of fertilizer to cover it

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