Recommend a new playground shape and size that would fit Clifton's budget and hold at least 3 times as many kids as Passaic's playground. How many kids can your playground hold? (Be sure to draw it)
Recommend a new playground shape and size that would fit Clifton's budget and hold at least 3 times as many kids as Passaic's playground. How many kids can your playground hold? (Be sure to draw it)
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Transcribed Image Text:4. Calculate the cost of grass and fencing for a playground that has been dilated
using a scale factor of 3.
Fencing Cost:
Grass Cost:
5. Will Clifton's budget cover the costs? Explain how you know.
6. How many children could play on the playground that is scaled up by a scale factor
of 3, at the same density of kids per square yard as on Passaic's playground?
7. Recommend a new playground shape and size that would fit Clifton's budget and hold
at least 3 times as many kids as Passaic's playground. How many kids can your
playground hold? (Be sure to draw it)

Transcribed Image Text:Unit 6 Mini Project
Here's a playground for a school of 360 children in Passaic.
4.
8.
1 unit = 10 yards
The fence around the playground costs 90 dollars per 50-foot roll. Laying the grass across the
area costs 400 dollars per 500 square feet. (The fencing only goes around the perimeter and
does not include DB or EF)
2. How many kids per square yard can
Passaic's playground hold?
1. How much did the fencing and grass for
this playground cost to build?
Fencing Cost:
Grass Cost:
3. There's a new playground going up in nearby Clifton. Clifton has a budget about 3
times greater than Passaic's, and wonders if they can build their playground by scaling
up Passaic's playground dimensions by 3. What would be the dimensions of the new
park? (Draw the new playground)
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