Practice
uaecoren ec 10-9
‘Some problems may involve using several steps to solve them,
Flora has a rectangular garden that is 15 ft by 12 ft. She
used half of the garden to plant tomatoes. One third of
the tomato plants were cherry tomatoes. How much of 12tt
the garden was used for cherry tomatoes? sal |
Step 1 Find the area of the garden.
A=Ixw A= 15x12 = 18087
Step 2 Find the area of the garden used for tomatoes.
4 x 180 = 908?
16 ft
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Step 3 Find the area of the garden used for cherry
tomatoes.
$x 90 = 30 1?
Flora used 30 ft? of her garden for cherry tomatoes.
Solve,
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How much more will he need to
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