Question

jamals lawn service often fertilizes lawn in the spring. jamal charges 3.50 per square yard. how much will jamal charge to fertilize the yard pictured below

Answer 1

He will charge $28.

Explanation:

We know that Jamal charges $3.50 per square yard.

Now we need to find the area in the image, it may be kinda hard to see it, but we can think of the image as a rectangle of 4yd by 3yd where we subtracted the area of a square of side length equal to 2yd.

The area of the rectangle is:

A = 4yd*3yd = 12 yd^2

And the area of the square is:

a = (2yd)^2 = 4 yd^2

The area of our image (equal to the difference between the area of the rectangle and the area of the square) is:

Area = A - a = 12 yd^2 - 4 yd^2 = 8 yd^2

Area = 8 yd^2

And he charges $3.50 per square yard, then for 8 square yards he charges 8 times that amount, which is:

C = 8*$3.50 = $28