Garden Project- Accelerated Math

Garden Project

due September 21, 2012

Kenton County wants to create a community garden.  There are 100 square feet to use up for the garden.  You must honor the request of the people in the Garden Committee.

Request

Sara wants 1/8 of the garden to have strawberries.

Mike want 8.5% of the garden to have carrots.

Jordan wants .55 of the garden to have pumpkins so they can sell pumpkins during Halloween.                

James really wants at 1/20 of the garden to have watermelons.

You can do what you want with the rest of the garden just be sure to include whatever you add in the table below.

PART 1

	Percent	Fraction	Decimal
Strawberries
Carrots
Pumpkins
Watermelons
TOTAL	100%

PART 2

Use a piece of graph paper to draw your garden design. You may place the object anywhere that you want.

PART 3

Write a letter to the head of your committee. In your letter, you should try to convince them that your design is the best.