Question

POSSIBLE POINTS: 8An agricultural science student at the School of Technology needed to know how many square yards of topsoil are needed to cover a rectangular gardenwith a length of 2.25 yards and a width of 23 yards. How many square yards are needed? Show your work!

Answer 1

Step 1. Given:

The rectangular garden has a length of 2.25 yards and a width of 23 yards.

Required: How many square yards are needed to cover the rectangular garden?

First, here we have a representation of the garden (not to scale)

Step 2. To find how many square yards are needed to cover the rectangle, we need to find the area of the figure.

To find the area we use this formula:

$Area=length\times width$

Substituting the known values of length and width:

$Area=2.25yd\times23yd$

Step 3. Solving the multiplication the result is:

$Area=51.75yd^2$

51.75 square yards are needed.

Answer: 51.75