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Horalco's garden is shown below. He needs 1 1/3 scoops of fertilizer for each square foot of the garden. How many scoops of fertilizer does Horaclo need for the entire garden? (Garden is 10 1/2 ft by 5 1/2 ft)

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Answer: he would need 77 scoops of fertilizer.

Explanation:

The measure of Horalco's garden is

10 1/2 ft by 5 1/2 ft. Converting to improper fraction, it becomes 21/2 ft by 11/2 ft. The garden is rectangular in shape and the formula for determining the area of a rectangle is expressed as

Area = length × width.

Therefore, area of the garden is

21/2 × 11/2 = 231/4 ft²

He needs 1 1/3 scoops of fertilizer for each square foot of the garden. Converting to improper fraction, it becomes 4/3 scoops. Therefore, the number of scoops of fertilizer that Horaclo need for the entire garden is

4/3 × 231/4 = 77 scoops of fertilizer.

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