SOLUTION: 2. a bag of lawn fertilizer claims that it will cover 5,000 square feet of grass. If your yard is 27,500 square feet, how many bags of fertilizer will you need?

Question 98448This question is from textbook Advanced Algebra 1.5 word problems
: 2. a bag of lawn fertilizer claims that it will cover 5,000 square feet of grass. If your yard is 27,500 square feet, how many bags of fertilizer will you need? This question is from textbook Advanced Algebra 1.5 word problems

Found 2 solutions by mathslover, jim_thompson5910:
Answer by mathslover(157) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
number of bags required = 27,500/5,000
= 5.5 bags
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
We basically have this ratio set up

Now multiply both sides by 27500

Multiply the fractions

Reduce

So our answer is

or in decimal form

So it takes 5 and a half bags to cover 27,500 square feet
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