SOLUTION: Lilly is doubling the dimensions of her flower garden. If it took three bags of mulch to cover her smaller garden last spring, how many bags will be needed to cover her enlarged

Question 1157113: Lilly is doubling the dimensions of her flower garden. If it took three bags of mulch to cover her smaller
garden last spring, how many bags will be needed to cover her enlarged garden?
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Since she doubled the dimensions, the new area is 4 times as large as it was before.


Hence, Lilly needs 4 times as much mulch as last spring, i.e. 4*3 = 12 bags of mulch.


ANSWER.  12 bags of mulch.

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