SOLUTION: Trevor works in his garden for 5 hours and 5 minutes, 2 days a week. After 6 weeks, how many hours has Trevor spent gardening? Laura is building a fence. She buys nine fence pos

Question 1054282: Trevor works in his garden for 5 hours and 5 minutes, 2 days a week. After 6 weeks, how many hours has Trevor spent gardening?
Laura is building a fence. She buys nine fence posts at the lumberyard, each measuring 8 ft 4 in. The lumber costs $2 per foot. How much will Laura spend?

Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Convert 5 minutes to hours
hrs
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You have 2 days a week, so

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For 6 weeks is:

Trevor has spent 61 hrs gardening
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Convert 4 inches to feet
ft
Each fence post measures:
ft
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At $2/ft, she pays:

$16.67 ( this is rounded off to the nearest cent

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