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The PTA wants to cover the wet areas of the trail with wood chips. They find that one bag of wood chips covers a 3 1 2 -yard section of the trail. If there is a wet section of the trail that is approximately 50 1 4 yards long, how many bags of wood chips are needed to cover the wet section of the trail?

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Answer: 14 5/14 bags of woods

Explanation:

Since one bag of wood chips covers a 3 1/2 yard section of the trail and the section of the trail is 50 1/4 yards long, the number of bags of wood chips that are needed to cover the wet section of the trail will be calculated by dividing the wet section of the trail by 3 1/2. This will be:

= 50 1/4 ÷ 3 1/2

= 201/4 ÷ 7/2

= 201/4 × 2/7

= 402/28

= 201/14

= 14 5/14 bags of woods

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