Clarence is seeding a rectangular yard at a new home to grow a lawn. The yard has a length of 200200 feet and a width of 43.4543.45 feet. a. Use partial products and the distributive property to determine the area of the yard that needs to be covered with grass seed. Create a model to support your reasoning. Use paper to show your work.

The area of the yard that Clarence needs to seed is
square feet.

b. Last month, Clarence covered another yard. That yard had an area of 7,253.557,253.55 square feet. How much larger is the area of the yard he is currently seeding than the yard he seeded last month?
The area of the current yard that Clarence is seeding is
square feet larger than the yard he seeded last month.