Please help with this problem...
Jerry plans to build a deck that is 189 square feet. What is the Prime factorization of 189? write your answer in exponential form.

So i said it was 3 to the 3rd power times 7 and that was right !

but the second part is what is confusing me it says Jerry wants his deck to be more that 6 feet wide. Using your result from above write two possible sets of detentions for Jerrys deck.

Thanks so much

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Please help with this problem...
Jerry plans to build a deck that is 189 square feet.  What is the Prime factorization of 189? write your answer in exponential form.

So i said it was 3 to the 3rd power times 7 and that was right !

but the second part is what is confusing me it says Jerry wants his deck to be more that 6 feet wide.  Using your result from above write two possible sets of detentions for Jerrys deck.

Thanks so much

anonymous · Answer

PLEASE HELP ME!!! :)

anonymous · Answer

someone please help me with this problem because i am real confused and it would really be kind if someone would be nice enough to help me! thanks

anonymous · Answer

189 = 3 * 63
189 = 3 * 3 * 21
189 = 3 * 3 * 3 * 7

so the prime factorization of 189 is 3 * 3 * 3 * 7  which is  3^3 * 7

anonymous · Answer

ok so the answer to the second part would be 3 feet  * 63 feet and 9 feet * 21 feet?

anonymous · Answer

Taking 3 * 3 * 3 * 7  the deck could be

9 x 21    ( I found that by 3 * 3  and  3 * 7)

27 x 7    ( found that by 3 * 3 * 3  and 7)

anonymous · Answer

ok thanks so much

anonymous · Answer

but how would i know if that equals 6 feet bc he wants his deck to be 6 feet wide

anonymous · Answer

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