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Lisa is fertilizing her garden. The garden is in the shape of a rectangle. Its length is 12 feet and its width is 10 feet. Suppose each bag of fertilizer covers 30

square feet. How many bags will she need to cover the garden?

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Answer:

4 bags

Explanation:

The number of required bags can be found by dividing the coverage required by the coverage per bag.

Area

The area of Lisa's garden is given by the formula ...

A = LW

For the given dimensions, the area is ...

A = (12 ft)(10 ft) = 120 ft²

Bags

The number of required bags can be found by dividing the area by the area per bag:

(120 ft²)/(30 ft²/bag) = 4 bags

Lisa will need 4 bags of fertilizer to cover the garden.

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Additional comment

The multiplication relation corresponding to this division relation is ...

(bags) × (area/bag) = area

To get the relation we used above, we divided both sides by (area/bag).

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