Question

1. Employees of a landscaping company built a retaining wall with area 23(3/8) sq ft. They used brick to make the top portion of the wall, which is 8(1/2) feet. What is the total height of the wall? Write an equation to represent the situation. Then solve. Part 2: If the area of the brick portion of the wall is 15(7/12), what fraction of the wall is brick? Write an equation to show your work.

Answer 1

Answer with Step-by-step explanation:

a) 2 3/4 ÷ 3 = 11/12 feet

11/12 + 11/12 = 1 5/6

Or, you could write an algebraic equation:

2 3/4 ÷ 3 = x. (3x = 2 3/4)

x = 11/12

The height of the brick proportion of the wall is 1 5/6

b)

You know that 8 x 2 is 16. Well, you already know that the whole total of fractions, multiplied together, would probably be less that 1 and less than 1/2.

So, your rounded answer should be 16. Or 16 1/2

c)

Area = 8 1/2 x 2 3/4.

Use Distributive Property to solve the area.

(8 x 2) + (3/4 x 1/2) = x

8 x 2 = 16

3/4 x 1/2 = 3/8

16 + 3/8 = 16 3/8

x = 16 3/8

I think my answer is reasonable because I estimated 16, and 1/2. 3/8 is close to 1/2. That's why my answer is reasonable.

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Answer 2

a. h = A/w = 2 ³/₄ ft

b. A'/A = 2/3

Explanation:

a. What is the total height of the wall? Write an equation to represent the situation. Then solve.

The wall is a rectangle and its area is A = wh where w = width and h = height of wall.

Making h subject of the formula,

h = A/w

Now, Since the area of the retaining wall, A is 23 ³/₈ ft² and its width is the length of the portion of the wall which is brick w is 8 ¹/₂ ft, then

h = A/w

= 23 ³/₈ ft² ÷ 8 ¹/₂ ft

= 187/8 ft² ÷ 17/2 ft

= 187/8 ft² × 2/17 ft

= 187/4 ft² × 1/17 ft

= 187/68 ft

= 2 ³/₄ ft

b. If the area of the brick portion of the wall is 15(7/12), what fraction of the wall is brick? Write an equation to show your work.

Since the area of the brick portion of the wall is A' = 15 ⁷/₁₂ ft² and the total are of the retaining wall is A = 23 ³/₈ ft²

The fraction of the wall that is brick = A'/A

= 15 ⁷/₁₂ ft² ÷ 23 ³/₈ ft²

= 187/12 ÷ 187/8

= 187/12 × 8/187

= 8/12

= 2/3