SOLUTION: You work as a grounds keeper for a small local elementary school and must fertilize the grass on the entire campus. You know that 4 containers cover 60 square yards. If the campus

Question 983748: You work as a grounds keeper for a small local elementary school and must fertilize the grass on the entire campus. You know that 4 containers cover 60 square yards. If the campus has 2,000 square yards of grass area, how many containers of fertilizer will you need?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39627) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Simple proportion, using ratio for containers to lawn area.

x, how many containers of fertilizer

, in practice, this might just be 133.
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