SOLUTION: What is the expense of sodding a plot of ground 45 yards long and 95 feet wide with sods 15 inches by 14 inches? The sods when laid cost $15.00 per hundred. What is the expense?

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Question 1138011: What is the expense of sodding a plot of ground 45 yards long and 95 feet wide with sods 15 inches by 14 inches? The sods when laid cost $15.00 per hundred. What is the expense?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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45%2A36%2A95%2A12%2Ainch%5E2
1846800%2Ainch%5E2-------area to sod


14%2A15%2Ainch%5E2
210%2Ainch%5E2--------area of 1 sod



1846800%2F210=8794.286--------------quantity of sods, including a partial sod








--------------------SEE BELOW THIS SECTION-----------------------------
8794.286%2A%2815%2F100%29
1319.14%2Adollars-----------cost or expense


If need to pay for whole sod to use any fraction of a sod, then
8795%2A%2815%2F100%29
%281319.25%2Adollars%29
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Number of Sods
8700%2B94.286

If sods less than 100 are not prorated and must use only full whole quantity of sods, and must buy full hundred, then customer must buy 8700%2B100=8800 sods. If this, then 8800%2A%2815%2F100%29=highlight%281320%2Adollars%29.