Need help with 2 questions: area of pond, gallons of water; number of truck-loads

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2. You have offered to make a fish pond in the back yard of a senior residence. It needs to be rectangular in shape (2 feet by 3 feet) and 3 feet deep.

(a) How much space (area), in meters squared, will the pond take up?

(b) How many gallons of water will you need to fill the pond? (Remember: One gallon fills 0.1336 cubic feet.)

5. Your next door neighbor is putting in a pool. The pool is 18' by 36', and is filled with water to an average depth of 5.5'. A truck with a cylindrical tank, with a diameter of 9' and a length of 20', will be delivering the water. How many truckloads of water are needed to fill the pool?
 

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2. You have offered to make a fish pond in the back yard of a senior residence. It needs to be rectangular in shape (2 feet by 3 feet) and 3 feet deep.

(a) How much space (area), in meters squared, will the pond take up?

(b) How many gallons of water will you need to fill the pond? (Remember: One gallon fills 0.1336 cubic feet.)

5. Your next door neighbor is putting in a pool. The pool is 18' by 36', and is filled with water to an average depth of 5.5'. A truck with a cylindrical tank, with a diameter of 9' and a length of 20', will be delivering the water. How many truckloads of water are needed to fill the pool?

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okay for the first assignment that I sent lesson number

2. what I did for A.

was draw a cube that represents the pond and set the measurements on each sides. Then I I guess calculated the surface area by doing 2 x 3 = 6 ft
after that I converted the 6ft in meters which is 6 x 0.3048 = 1.8288

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For B this is what I did but I am not sure if I did it right.

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Now LEsson 5. I didn't understood it at all I don't know what to do.
 
2. You have offered to make a fish pond in the back yard of a senior residence. It needs to be rectangular in shape (2 feet by 3 feet) and 3 feet deep.

(a) How much space (area), in meters squared, will the pond take up?

(b) How many gallons of water will you need to fill the pond? (Remember: One gallon fills 0.1336 cubic feet.)

5. Your next door neighbor is putting in a pool. The pool is 18' by 36', and is filled with water to an average depth of 5.5'. A truck with a cylindrical tank, with a diameter of 9' and a length of 20', will be delivering the water. How many truckloads of water are needed to fill the pool?



Question 2. what I did for (a) was draw a cube that represents the pond and set the measurements on each sides. Then I I guess calculated the surface area by doing 2 x 3 = 6 ft
You multiplied (two feet)*(three feet) and ended up with (2*3)(feet*feet) somehow equalling only "feet". Should "area" be in square units? Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "surface area" in this context...? I think they're asking for "the area within the yard"; that is, "how much grass they'll be losing to the pond".

after that I converted the 6ft in meters which is 6 x 0.3048 = 1.8288
Make a correction to the units (see comment above), and then use the appropriate conversion factor.

(Note: You can do a quick check in your head. Six square feet can be rearranged to be six feet long by one foot wide. This is two yards long by one-third yard wide. Using the [very crude] approximation of one yard to one meter, one then has (2 yards)(1/3 yard) = 2/3 square yards, or approximately 2/3 square meters. Getting a value almost three times as high suggests that there is an error somewhere.)

For (b) this is what I did but I am not sure if I did it right.

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Your image is quite small, but I think you multiplied the three given linear dimensions, and arrived at a volume of 18 cubic feet. This is correct. Now, how many times can 0.1336 cubic feet fit into this value? So how many gallons do you need?

Question 5. I didn't understood it at all I don't know what to do.
They've given you three linear dimensions. They've told you that you need to fill that volume. So a good place to start might be with finding the volume. ;)
 
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