Question

A farmer has decided to divide his land area in half in order to plant soy and corn. Calculate the area of the entire area so he knows how much soil is needed.

A parallelogram with a height of 6 yards and side length 9 yards. The height forms a triangle with the slanted side of the rhombus with a base of 2.5 yards. Rhombus is split into a soy half and a corn half.

Each bag of soil covers 20 square yards. How many bags should the farmer purchase?

Answer 1

Do you know the area of a parallelogram?

Answer 2

base height

Answer 3

yep so can you figure out the area since you have both the base and the height?

Answer 4

I'm not sure ab this question

Answer 5

Am I supposed to multiply all of these?

Answer 6

the base is equal to the sum of the bases of the two triangles
2.5+6.5

Answer 7

So that'd be 9

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

and the height is 6

Answer 10

So we multiply that?

Answer 11

Well that wouldnt make sense actually

Answer 12

It'd be way too much

Answer 13

what do you mean?

Answer 14

Well if you multiply those together

Answer 15

You'd get something over 4

Answer 16

And the answer choices are 1-4 bags

Answer 17

well
the question doesn't ask for area, it asks for number of bags

Answer 18

6*9 is the area

Answer 19

54

Answer 20

yes
each bag fills 20 square yards
so how many bags are needed?

Answer 21

Two right?

Answer 22

Because that'd be 40

Answer 23

but that would fill less than needed

Answer 24

Oh so it can be over 54?

Answer 25

20x3=60

Answer 26

yes you want it at least 54

Answer 27

So that'd be just enough

Answer 28

yep

Answer 29

Oh tysm!

Answer 30

you're welcome

Answer 31

Can you answer one last question after this one?

Answer 32

sure thing

Answer 33

Okay let me make a new question!

Answer 34

okay