Ronnie's mother has a 60 square metre garden. She uses 1/4 of the garden as lawn and remaining for growing fruits and vegetables. She further divided it into 5 equal parts to grow roses,dahlias,tomatoes,spinach and green chilles. Find:
: the fraction of the garden used for growing flowers.
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Answers
Step-by-step explanation:
1/4 of garden is lawn =60/4=15
1-1/4=3/4
3/4 is divided into 5 parts =3/4/5=3/4*1/5
=12/5
Fraction use to grow flowers =12/5*2=24/5
The fraction of the garden used for growing flowers is 3/10.
Total area of the garden = 60 m^2.
Given that,
(1/4)th of the total area is required as lawn.
So, area required for lawn = (1/4) × 60 = 15 m^2
The area of garden remaining = (60 - 15)m^2 = 45 m^2.
This 45 m^2 of area, she uses it for growing fruits and vegetables, and divides into 5 equal parts for growing roses, dahlias, tomatoes, spinach and green chilles.
So, area individually for all of these = 45/5 = 9 m^2.
Out of these, roses and dahlias are flowers. So, their combined area =
(9 × 2) m^2 = 18 m^2.
Now, we have to find out the fraction of garden used for growing these flowers, which is equal to:
= (Area reqd. to grow these flowers) / (Area of the garden)
= 18 / 60
= 3 / 10
So, 3/10 th fraction of the garden is used to grow flowers.