gary is weeding his vegetable garden.
it takes him 45 seconds to weed 3 square feet.
the vegetable garden is in the shape of a rectangle that is 4 yards by 6 yards.
how many minutes will it take gary to weed his entire vegetable garden?
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To find the area of the vegetable garden in square yards, we first need to convert the dimensions from yards to feet. Since 1 yard equals 3 feet, the length of the vegetable garden is 4 x 3 = 12 feet and the width is 6 x 3 = 18 feet.
Next, we calculate the area by multiplying the length by the width: 12 feet x 18 feet = 216 square feet.
Since Gary can weed 3 square feet in 45 seconds, he will take 216 square feet / 3 square feet per 45 seconds = 72 cycles of 45 seconds to weed the entire garden.
Now, we can convert the number of cycles into minutes. Since there are 60 seconds in a minute, 72 cycles x (45 seconds/60 seconds) = 54 minutes.
Therefore, it will take Gary 54 minutes to weed his entire vegetable garden.