The owners of the fish pond, Jane and Joachim Romez, have decided to add some additional landscaping in their backyard by planting Japanese peonies. They want to
create a flowerbed along one side of their 24-yard-long fence. They plan to start with a
flowerbed that is 8 yards long and 1 foot wide and expand it later. The peony plants
need to be planted 2 feet apart.
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3. REINFORCE If they plant the first peony 1 foot inside the end of the flowerbed, how
many peony plants do they need to purchase to fill the 8-yard-long flowerbed? Solve this
problem using a concrete model.