Question

Tammy is planting a garden that is 60ft.square feet. How many square inches is the garden?

Answer 1

How many square inches are in a square foot?

Answer 2

12?

Answer 3

there are twelve inches along each edge, so how many little squares will you have in the big square?

Answer 4

144

Answer 5

Correct. So if there are 144 square inches in each square foot, and you have 60 square feet, how many square inches will you have?

Answer 6

144x60=8640?

Answer 7

Also correct

Answer 8

Thanks that helped a lot!=)

Answer 9

You can check your answer using unit analyses:

\[60ft^2 = 60\times ft \times ft \times \frac{12in}{ft} \times \frac{12in}{ft} = 8640 \times in \times in = 8640 in^2\]

Answer 10

can you help with my other one?

Answer 11

I still dont get it