SOLUTION: A 3-pound bag of wildflower seed covers 24 square feet. How many pounds of seed does it take to cover 1 square foot?
Algebra.Com
Question 1154380: A 3-pound bag of wildflower seed covers 24 square feet. How many pounds of seed does it take to cover 1 square foot?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are many ways to express the answer.
You could go with a fraction and that would be 1/8 of a pound.
Or you could write the answer in decimal form to say 0.125 pounds.
If you wish to convert to ounces, then the answer would be 2 ounces.
All of these answers represent the same thing.
--------------------------------
Heres how to get the answer:
3 pounds = 24 square feet
3/24 pounds = 24/24 square feet ... divide both sides by 24
1/8 pounds = 1 square foot ... note how we have 1 square foot
0.125 pounds = 1 square foot
2 ounces = 1 square foot
How did I go from 1/8 of a pound to 2 ounces? I used the fact that 16 ounces = 1 pound, so,
16 ounces = 1 pound
16/8 ounces = 1/8 pound ... divide both sides by 8
2 ounces = 1/8 pound
2 ounces = 0.125 pound
RELATED QUESTIONS
A 15-pound bag of wildflower seed covers 40 square feet. How many pounds of seed does it... (answered by stanbon)
A 5 pound bag of grass seed covers 9,000 square feet. How many pounds would be needed to... (answered by ikleyn,greenestamps,MathTherapy)
A 3 lb. bag of grass seed covers a 3000 square foot area. How large an area will a 16 oz. (answered by Cromlix)
A pound of grass seed covers 120 square feet of lawn. How many pounds are needed to seed (answered by rapaljer)
A pound of grass seed covers 120 square feet of lawn. Find how many pounds are needed to (answered by reraom)
Set up and solve a proportion for the problem.if 4 pound of grass seed cover 353 square... (answered by josgarithmetic)
If a pound of grass seed covers an area of 500 square feet and costs $3.25, what is the... (answered by Fombitz)
If 1/8 pound of fertilizer covers 25 square feet of ground, how much fertilizer, in... (answered by Alan3354)
It takes 25 pounds of seed to completely plant a 3 acre field. How many acres can be... (answered by checkley77)