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