Floriculture Problem Solving Questions 2022-2023 Area

Your agriculture teacher has asked you to determine the amount of bench space that is inside your school greenhouse. Your greenhouse is 70 feet long and 40 feet wide and contains the following benches: - 2 benches that are 60 feet long and 3 feet wide - 8 benches that are 12 feet long and 4 feet wide

• 228

• 500

• 744

• 962

Answer explanation

2 benches that are 60 feet long and 3 feet wide = 60 x 3 = 180 x 2 = 360

8 benches that are 12 feet long and 4 feet wide = 12x4 = 48 x 8 = 384

360 + 384 = 744

Your agriculture teacher has asked you to prepare the fertilizer that will be used in the greenhouse fertilizer injector. You are mixing the fertilizer in a 5-gallon bucket to be placed under the injector. A useful formula for calculating how many ounces of dry soluble fertilizer is needed to make 1 gallon of stock solution is as follows: (Desired concentration in ppm X Dilution factor) / (% of N element in fertilizer X 75) Your injector ratio is 1:200 (so the dilution factor is 200), your fertilizer analysis is 17-5-24, and you want to apply 150 ppm nitrogen. How many ounces of fertilizer need to be placed in the 5-gallon bucket?

• 10.46

• 23.53

• 88.0

• 117.65

Answer explanation

(150 X 200) / (17 X 75) = 23.53 ounces for 1 gallon

23.53 x 5 gallons = 117.65 ounces

During the school’s fall plant sale, a customer purchased the following items: - 3 red poinsettias and 3 white poinsettias - 5 flats of pansies - 2 cell-pks of snapdragons - 4 Chrysanthemums in 6 inch pots Below is a list of your school’s price breakdown of all the items in the greenhouse. - All poinsettias are $15.00 each - All annual bedding plants are $12.00 per flat or $3.00 per cell pack - All annual in 4 inch pots are $3.00 each - All annuals in 6 inch pots are $5.00 each - All perennials in 6 inch pots are $8.00 each What is the total the customer owes? No sales tax required.

• $131

• $176

• $188

• $200

Answer explanation

3 red poinsettias and 3 white poinsettias x $15 = $90

5 flats of pansies x $12 = $60

2  cell-pks of snapdragons  x $3 = $6

4 Chrysanthemums in 6 inch pots x $8 - $32

$90 + $60 + $6 + $32 = $188

Your horticulture class has 12 raised vegetable beds that you plant every spring. The beds need new soil. Each bed is 10 feet long, 4 feet wide and 3 feet deep. A local company is willing to donate all the needed soil. However, the soil is ordered by the cubic yard. Calculate the cubic yards of soil needed to fill all 12 of the raised beds. Given: There are 27 cubic feet in a cubic yard. Round up to the nearest whole number.

• 5

• 24

• 54

• 97

Answer explanation

Each bed is 10x4x3 = 120 cubic feet

120 cubic feet x 12 = 1,440 cubic feet

1,440 / 27 = 53.33 = 54

Approximately how many gallons of water per day will it take to run all 7 greenhouse zones inside the school greenhouse? Each zone requires a half hour of irrigation once a day. Each zone has 6 heads that spray 0.05 gallons per minute. Select from the below answers:

• 121 gallons per day

• 63 gallons per day

• 12 gallons per day

• 9 gallons per day

Answer explanation

One zone has 6 heads x .05 gallons per minute x 30 mins = 9 gallons per zone per day

9 gallons x 7 zones = 63 gallons / day for all the zones