Question

Echo is creating a garden that is 36 feet wide and can fit one row of shrubs. Each shrub is 4.5 feet wide. Each shrub costs $15.32. She plants the maximum number of shrubs for the garden.

What is the total cost for Echo’s shrubs?

Answer 1

Echo can plant a maximum of 8 shrubs.

The total cost for Echo's shrubs is = 8
`*` $15.32 = $122.56

Explanation:

i) Garden is 36 feet wide

ii) Each shrub is 4.5 feet wide.

iii) therefore the maximum number of shrubs that can be planted are

`= (36)/(4.5) = 8`

Therefore Echo can plant a maximum of 8 shrubs.

Therefore the total cost for Echo's shrubs is = 8
`*` $15.32 = $122.56