Jim's backyard is a rectangle that is 15 5/6 yards long and 10 2/5 yards wide. jim buys sods in pieces that are 1 1/3 yards long and 1 1/3 yards wide. how many pieces of sod will jim need to buy to cover his backyard with sod?

We are given

Jim's backyard:

Length is

width is

Since, this is rectangle

so, we can find area of rectangle

Area of one sod:

length is

width is

Since, it is rectangle in shape

so,

Number of pieces of sod:

we can use formula

Number of pieces of sod = (area of Jim's backyard)/(area of one sod)

now, we can simplify it

pieces need ..............Answer

were is the equation

the simplified form is

step-by-step explanation:

we want to simplify the expression,

let us change the middle bar to a normal division sign to obtain,

we multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction to obtain,

we factor to obtain,

we cancel the common factors to get,

we simplify to get,

the correct answer is b