Problem Solving #2

Your horticulture teacher asked you to figure out how much Osmocote, as a slow-release fertilizer, you will need to apply to the fall mum containers that your program is growing. You are given the table below to use in your calculation. You have planted sixty (60) mums in 6.5-inch azalea pots and forty (40) mums in 8-inch mum pans. You are told that the application rate needs to be at a medium level for the 6.5-inch pots and at the high level for the 8-inch mum pans. How many pounds of Osmocote will you need for all 100 mums?

• 1.0

• 1.98

• 2.71

• 3.08

Your school greenhouse has 575 poinsettias in 8” azalea pots. You are planning on wrapping the poinsettias with foil and putting a bow on the pot when they are ready for sale to the public. You need to buy the ribbon for the bows and dressing the pots. You calculate that it will take 9 feet of ribbon to make the bow and dress the pot. You are going to use #40 ribbon and it is available in 75-yard rolls. How many rolls of ribbon do you need to purchase to get your poinsettias ready for the customers? *There are 3 feet in 1 yard.

• A. 17 rolls

• B. 12 rolls

• C. 23 rolls

• D. 27 rolls

Your school has purchased new planters to go on each side of the doors at every school entrance. It will be the horticulture class's responsibility to get these planted and looking nice each season. These containers stand 33 inches tall and are 3 feet by 3 feet wide. There are 11 separate entrances to your school. You will be using 2.8 cubic feet bags of soil to fill these containers. A pallet contains 100 bags of soil. How many pallets of soil are needed to fill the containers?

• A. 1 pallet

• B. 2 pallets

• C. 3 pallets

• D. 4 pallets

Your horticulture class has been growing succulents and plans to make dish gardens as a school fundraiser. You hope to make $10 profit off of each container. Each container will contain the following items at wholesale cost: - Succulents at $1.00 each - Small rocks - $2.50 - Dish Garden Container - $4.00 You plan to sell these containers for $25 retail. If the retail mark up is 3x on plant material and 2x on hard goods, how many succulents can you put in each container to make the $25 retail cost?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 6

In a greenhouse there is a drip line irrigation tube running the length of the entire growing bench. There are three (3) of these growing benches in the greenhouse. The benches are 42 feet long. On each of these irrigation lines there are inline drip emitters installed every 6 inches. Each emitter is a ½ GPH (gallons per hour) rate emitter. If you turn the water valve on that controls the water flow to all three greenhouse bench drip lines, how much water will be used for the plants in 30 minutes?

• 63 gallons

• 396 gallons

• 33 gallons