Parking Lot

[abc0003]

A five gallon bucket of tar can seal 3500 square feet of blacktop. If a parking lot is 15,000 square feet, how many buckets of tar must be purchased in order to seal it?

15,000/3500= 4.28
The final answer is 5 buckets.

Is my answer right? Thank you.

 

[wjm11]

A five gallon bucket of tar can seal 3500 square feet of blacktop. If a parking lot is 15,000 square feet, how many buckets of tar must be purchased in order to seal it?

15,000/3500= 4.28
The final answer is 5 buckets.

Is my answer right? Thank you.

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Looks good. The roundup to 5 is appropriate if we treat this as a "real world" problem and whole buckets of tar must be purchased.

 

[mmm4444bot]

Well, you could cheat a little by covering 3750 square feet (instead of 3500) with [five gallons of tar]

One could "cheat", but then they should not expect to receive credit for a correct answer.

In this exercise, five gallons of tar covers only 3,500 square feet.

(Denis, meet me in the parking lot; I'll bring your feathers.)