Question

An environmental charity set a target to plant trees on 9000m^2 of land in September.

In September, it planted trees on 0.017km^2 of land.

a) What area of land did the charity plant trees on? Give your answer in m^2

b) Did it reach its target?

Answer 1

The environmental charity planted trees on 17,000 square meters of land, which exceeds their initial target of 9,000 square meters, hence they reached their target.

Step-by-step explanation:

To answer the question regarding the area the environmental charity planted trees on, we first need to convert the given area from square kilometers to square meters. To do this, we use the conversion factor that 1 km2 is equal to 1,000,000 m2.

Part (a)

The charity planted trees on 0.017 km2 of land. To convert this to square meters:

0.017 km2 × 1,000,000 m2/km2 = 17,000 m2

Part (b)

The charity set a target to plant trees on 9,000 m2 of land. Since they planted trees on 17,000 m2, it is clear that they exceeded their target by a significant margin.

The charity surpassed its target area for tree planting.