SOLUTION: Caroline has a rectangular vegetable garden that measures 4 m x 6 m . she wants to divide the garden into three equal sections to plant three different vegetables . what is the

Question 993935: Caroline has a rectangular vegetable garden that measures 4 m x 6 m . she wants to divide the garden into three equal sections to plant three different vegetables . what is the area of each section ?
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since the original area can be found by multiplying length times width, we get 4 m x 6 m = 24 m^2 as the total area.
We want to divide this by three and get
24 / 3 = 8 m^2
for each smaller section.
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