SOLUTION: Angela Hatcher is planting flower bulbs in her garden for this coming summer. She intends to plant 1 bulb for every 5 square inches of flower bed. How many flower bulbs will she ne

Question 769971: Angela Hatcher is planting flower bulbs in her garden for this coming summer. She intends to plant 1 bulb for every 5 square inches of flower bed. How many flower bulbs will she need for an area measuring 230 square feet.
Found 2 solutions by Cromlix, MathLover1:
Answer by Cromlix(4381) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
230ft^2 = 33120ins^2
33120/5 = 6624 bulbs.
Hope this helps.
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Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

if bulb for every of flower bed and an area measuring first convert area into
then

so, all you need to do now is divide area by

Angela will need flower bulbs
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