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Question

Maria is planting a row of flowers in a bed 63 feet long. The instructions say to space the plants 1 foot apart. The flowers come in flats containing 6 plants per flat?

Answer 1

I presume the final question is: How many flats should she buy?

First you need to figure out how many plants she needs. If the bed is 63 feet long, and she is putting a plant every foot, she will need 64 plants (presuming she starts at the edge, or 0).

If each flat contains 6 plants, we divide 64 by 6 to see how many flats she needs. 64/6 = 10 4/6.

If she's not allowed to break up a flat, she'll need 11 flats. If she is allowed to break up a flat, she'll need 10 4/6, which reduces to 10 2/3 flats.