Question

A gardener is planning on preparing his lawn for the summer. Each tube of lawn feed is 50ml and must be mixed with two parts water. The mixture will cover 1.5m2 of garden. If a garden is 4.5 m2. How much water will be needed in ml?

Answer 1

Each mixture has one part lawn feed and two parts water. That means each mixture has 50ml lawn feed and 2 x 50ml = 100ml water.

So, each mixture has 100ml of water and we know it will cover 1.5m2 of garden.

That means for 4.5m2 = 3 x 1.5m2 we will need 3 x 100ml = 300ml of water.