Karl wants to fertilize his 6 acres. If it takes #8 2/3# bags of fertilizer for each acre, how much fertilizer does Karl need to buy?
2 Answers
Oct 8, 2016
Explanation:
There are 6 acres. He needs
WE could say:
and then just ad them all together.
However, multiplication is the short cut for repeated addition.
So it is quicker and easier to do
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Oct 8, 2016
DATA:
no. of acres=6 acres
no. of bags needed to fertilize 1 acre=8 2/3
no. of bags needed to fertilize 6 acres=?
SOLUTION:
68 2/3
626/3
156/3
52
Kari need to buy 52 bags of fertilizers to fertilize
acres