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School Garden Task

Last updated almost 5 years ago

12 questions

The school garden is a rectangle with a length of 30 feet and a width of 15 feet.

1

What is the perimeter of the garden?
Show how you know.

1

What was the total area of the garden?
Show how you know.

1

The fifth grade wants to plant various vegetables using the following guidelines:

1/3 of the garden will be tomatoes
1/10 of the garden will be green peppers
1/5 of the garden will be potatoes
1/9 of the garden will be corn

What is the total area for each type of vegetable? (you will type in your answers in #4, 5, 6, 7 but show your work here).

1

Tomatoes

1

Green Peppers

1

Potatoes

1

Corn

1

Using the grid draw a border to show the entire garden. Each small square is 1 square foot.

Show and label each section of the garden.
(Be sure to write the number to show each vegetable garden’s dimensions.)

1

What fraction of the garden will be unused?

1

What would be the area of the unused part of the garden?

1

If the fifth grade decided to plant more tomatoes in the unused part of the garden,
What would be the new total area used to plant tomatoes?

1

What would be the new fractional part of the garden for tomatoes?