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How much will it cost to buy a low fence to put all the way around the bed? The fencing material costs $0.59 per foot and can only be bought in whole numbers of feet.

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To find the cost we first need to know how many feet of fence we need. To do this we add all the lengths of the sides:


6+6+8.5=20.5

Now, since we can only buy whole numbers of feet we need to buy 21 feets of fence, then the total cost is:


21\cdot0.59=12.39

Therefore the cost will be $12.39

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