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A construction worker wants to make a walkway out of concrete pads. Each pad will be
3 ft x 3 ft x 4 in. The walkway is to be 36 feet long and 3 feet wide. If concrete costs
$125 per yd, how much will the concrete for the walkway cost (plus HST)? The
construction worker has been told only whole cubic yards of concrete can be purchased,
part yd cannot be purchased. ​

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Answer:

  $250 +HST (HST is undefined here)

Step-by-step explanation:

It seems easiest to convert all linear dimensions to yards. A yard is 3 feet, or 36 inches, so each pad is 1 yard square by 1/9 yard thick. Then the volume of a pad is (1 yd)(1 yd)(1/9 yd) = 1/9 yd³.

The walkway is 12 yards long and 1 yard wide, so will require 12 pads.

The total volume of concrete required for the walkway is ...

  (12 pads)(1/9 yd³/pad) = 12/9 yd³ = 1 1/3 yd³

Only whole cubic yards can be purchased, so 2 are needed.

The cost is ...

  ($125/yd³)(2 yd³) = $250 . . . cost of material for the walkway

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The HST rate is not given here, so we cannot compute the amount of added tax.

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