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George wants to use square pavers that are 6 inches on each side to completely surround his ower garden. The garden is 12 feet long and 3 feet wide. How many pavers should George buy? Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! George wants to use square pavers that are 6 inches on each side to completely surround his ower garden. The garden is 12 feet long and 3 feet wide. How many pavers should George buy?
convert the dimensions of the pavers to feet and you get each paver is 1/2 feet on each side.
this means that the length of each paver is 1/2 foot and the width of each paver is 1/2 foot.
to cover the length of the garden, you will need 12 / (1/2) = 24 pavers.
to cover the width of the garden, you will need 3 / (1/2) = 6 pavers.
you will need an additional 4 pavers to cover the corners.
the total number of pavers required is (24 * 2) + (6 * 2) + (1 * 4) = 64.
the garden will look like this.
24 tiles along the lenth on top and bottom.
6 tiles along the width on left and right side.
4 tiles on the corners.
