Question

What is the ratio of the area of the pool to the area of the deck?
Pool: 20*60=1200ft^2
Deck: 30*90=2700ft^2

Answer 1

A ratio is a fraction.
Pool/Deck
So, 1200ft^2/2700ft^2

1200/2700 = 12/27

Answer 2

Or 44.44 %

Answer 3

okay. So how many feet of fencing is needed to go around the deck?

Answer 4

Fencing problems refer to perimeter. To calculate perimeter you simply add all four sides together. If the deck is 30*90, then there are 2 sides of length 30 and 2 sides of length 90. Therefor, 2(30) + 2(90) = 240ft