Jill is planting a row of flowers 10 ft long in her garden. If she plants a flower every 1/3 ft, how many flowers can she plant?
10/(1/3) = 10 * 3 = ?
Thought it was 30 but it didn't seem right. Too many flowers it seemed. Thank you
Whenever you're not sure, try to draw a diagram. The flowers are 1/3 foot apart, so there are 3 flowers in one foot.
To find out how many flowers Jill can plant in a row that is 10 ft long, we need to divide the length of the row by the distance between each flower.
Step 1: Convert the distance between each flower to a decimal.
1/3 ft can be written as 0.33 ft (rounded to two decimal places).
Step 2: Divide the length of the row by the distance between each flower.
10 ft รท 0.33 ft = 30.30 flowers (rounded to two decimal places).
Since we can't have a fraction of a flower, we need to round down to the nearest whole number.
Therefore, Jill can plant a maximum of 30 flowers in the 10 ft long row.