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

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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) About Me  (Show Source):
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230ft^2 = 33120ins^2
33120/5 = 6624 bulbs.
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Answer by MathLover1(20849) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!

if 1 bulb for every 5in%5E2 of flower bed and an area measuring 230ft%5E2 first convert area into in%5E2
1ft%5E2=%2812in%29%5E2=144in%5E2 then
230ft%5E2=230%2A144in%5E2=33120in%5E2
so, all you need to do now is divide area by 5
33120in%5E2%2F5in%5E2=6624
Angela will need 6624 flower bulbs