...television shows, however, many homeowners are becoming amateur landscape artists. Suppose you are a homeowner getting ready to sell your home. You realize that there are some landscaping problems that you want to address so that your home will sell quickly and you can get the best price. Since deciding to landscape your backyard, you have realized there are many things to consider, such as budget, time, and space. Application Practice Answer the following questions. Use Equation Editor to write mathematical expressions and equations. First, save this file to your hard drive by selecting Save As from the File menu. Click the white space below each question to maintain proper formatting. Please highlight your answers. 1. You are planning to spend no less than $5,000 and no more than $9,000 on your landscaping project. a) Write an inequality that demonstrates how much money you will be willing to spend on the project. $5,000 ≤ $9,000 b) Suppose you want to cover the backyard with decorative rock and plant some trees as the first phase of the project. You need 20 tons of rock to cover the area. If each ton cost $50 and each tree is $85, what is the maximum number of trees you can buy with a budget for rock and trees of $3,000? Write an inequality that illustrates the problem and solve. Express your answer as an inequality and explain how you arrived at your answer. 20 x $50 = $1,000 $3,000 - $1,000 = $2,000 left for trees $2,000/$85...
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...Rested myself on the grass made me feel so comfortable. I looked at my neighbor’s backyard on my right. There’s something that I was attracted to. Pumpkins, carved pumpkins: my first time seeing carved pumpkins with my own eyes. They were once innocent little pumpkins in a pumpkin patch, but after removing their guts (the seeds in the orange stringy goo inside) and scraping them clean, candle can be placed inside and lit. The pumpkins have been transformed into scary, creepy, or even ridiculously funny objects, portraying the fun Halloween spirit. If Halloween is just around the corner, I might need to buy something to celebrate it with my friends. After a while, I turned myself to the left, looking at my other neighbor’s backyard. There was...
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...This is a review of the Aspen Tree Interiors Hanging Fanback Porch Swing. This is a roomy porch swing that you can lounge on while reading a book or enjoying a cool summer breeze and a glass of wine. It's a comfortable porch swing that's sturdy and comes in a variety of colors to fit in with any type of décor you have on your patio, porch, or in the backyard. Personally, we're a fan of bright, bold colors, but you can choose the one that suits you best. Pros of the Hanging Fanback Porch Swing Amish-made Made in the USA Knot-free yellow pine Can hold several adults Durable construction Hanging hardware included Cons of the Swinging Day Bed Curbside delivery only First Impressions We've reviewed quite a few porch swings, but this is one of our favorites. The back of the swing is an unusual shape, so you could easily leave the back unadorned with pillows to highlight that design element. It's a wide 6-foot day bed that can take a thick cushion. This will turn it into a relaxing bed instead of just a swing to sit on while enjoying the outdoors. You could even use this as a place for your toddler to nap while you soak in the peace and quiet of nature....
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...fall is 750 billion pounds. In order to answer this question, I considered the trees by my own house. The tree in my backyard is a large oak tree. Rather than attempt to approximate the number of leaves on the tree and the mass of one leaf, I considered how much a 13 gallon bag weighs when it is filled with leaves that have fallen off the tree. After raking the leaves, I do my best to fit as many leaves as possible into the bag, which means the leaves often crumble as I keep putting in more and more leaves. From my experience last fall, the bag weighs about 5 pounds. However, my estimate of the bag’s weight is based on perception; I know for certain that the bag is neither as light as two or three pounds nor as heavy as nine or ten pounds. Therefore, my best estimate of the weight of the bag is 5 pounds. Furthermore, when raking the leaves, I usually fill up three bags (I rake the leaves only once). As such, in one fall season, I collect about 15 pounds of leaves from a single tree. However, because the tree is large and it is often windy, I am certain that many leaves either fly off into the lake, a neighbor’s house, the roof, and/or the front yard. In addition, it seems implausible to assume that I fit all the tree’s leaves into three garbage bags. Therefore, I estimate that I am only able to collect about half of all the leaves. With this assumption, I conclude that the tree in my yard loses about 30 pounds of leaves. From this point on, it would be a simple matter to multiply...
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...nudged it with a lot of strength and effort, and I prudently stepped onto the back porch so that I don’t slip and fall, now I had a full view of my backyard, a wintry paradise enclosed in snow. As I walked down the steps and headed for the sidewalk, the squeaking of the wooden steps combined with the crunch of the snow under my feet felt like two instruments from the orchestra, performing in sweet silence all around me. The white, cottony powder covered the branches of the trees. As I walked down the sidewalk, I saw my car parked under a thick layer of snow .My mischievous dogs ran to meet me, leaving trails of paw prints in the snow. I continued to the driveway and scraped some snow off of the car window, and looked inside. The powder chilled my hand, so I put my hand inside my pocket to warm it, the snow began to fall harder. I wandered around the car, and crunched the snow beneath my feet. I hear birds chirping, and stride to the bird feeder, where several small birds hopped around on the ground. The snow was peppered with tiny holes where seeds had fallen from the bird feeder. The birds flew away as I approached them. I continued walking and scooped up some snow from the ground, shaped it into a rough sphere, and threw it at a tree trunk. The snow scattered, falling from the tree and from all the bushes surrounding the tree. As I treaded past the birdbath, I realized the...
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...do-it-yourself television shows, many homeowners are becoming amateur landscape artists. Imagine you are a homeowner getting ready to sell your home. You realize there are some landscaping problems you want to address so your home will sell quickly and you can get the best price. After making this decision, you realize there are many things to consider when landscaping the backyard, such as budget, time, and space. Application Practice Answer the following questions. Use Equation Editor to write mathematical expressions and equations. First, save this file to your hard drive by selecting Save As from the File menu. Click the white space below each question to maintain proper formatting. 1. You are planning to spend no less than $6,000 and no more than $10,000 on your landscaping project. a. Write an inequality that demonstrates how much money you will are willing to spend on the project. $6,000<_x<_$10,000 b. For the first phase of the project, imagine you want to cover the backyard with decorative rock and plant some trees. You need 30 tons of rock to cover the area. If each ton costs $60 and each tree is $84, what is the maximum number of trees you can buy with a budget of $2,500? Write an inequality that illustrates the problem and solve. Express your answer as an inequality and explain how you arrived at your answer. T<_8 Assuming maximum number of trees is (x), total expenditure 2,500, equation 60(30)+84(x)=2,500 84x=2,500-1,800 X=700/84 X=8.33 8 or less...
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...and her American daughter-in-law grief stricken. The narrator felt alienated from them both. The action moves from the memory to the present where the narrator has arrived back in Nigeria, having been called by Dozie for the first time in eighteen years and told about the death of her grandmother. Dozie tells her that he is surprised to see her because he knows how much she hated grandmamma. She recalls Nonso’s funeral and the months later where she told her mother that he died because grandmamma sent him up the avocado tree ‘to show how much of a man he was’ (p.194) and then frightened him by telling him there was a snake there. She also said that when he fell, grandmamma did nothing about it and he died because of this. The narrator then acknowledges to herself that this was the summer ‘you knew something had to happen to Nonso, so that you could survive’ (p.195) that he took up ‘too much space (p.195). She recalls how she tricked Nonso up the avocado tree, and then shouted out that there was a snake. Nonso hesitated then fell to...
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...and her American daughter-in-law grief stricken. The narrator felt alienated from them both. The action moves from the memory to the present where the narrator has arrived back in Nigeria, having been called by Dozie for the first time in eighteen years and told about the death of her grandmother. Dozie tells her that he is surprised to see her because he knows how much she hated grandmamma. She recalls Nonso’s funeral and the months later where she told her mother that he died because grandmamma sent him up the avocado tree ‘to show how much of a man he was’ (p.194) and then frightened him by telling him there was a snake there. She also said that when he fell, grandmamma did nothing about it and he died because of this. The narrator then acknowledges to herself that this was the summer ‘you knew something had to happen to Nonso, so that you could survive’ (p.195) that he took up ‘too much space (p.195). She recalls how she tricked Nonso up the avocado tree, and then shouted out that there was a snake. Nonso hesitated then fell to...
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...Lord of the Trees Once upon a time, as Jimbo Jackson was driving home from the supermarket, he glanced across the street at an old, wise tree. Jimbo remembered the truffula trees that no longer provided for the environment. The vibrant forests experienced deforestation, driving the friendly creatures out Jimbo Jackson possessed the last seed to save the environment and pondered about what to do with it. He finally decided to sell the seed, but he needed a buyer. Jimbo then went to the recycle plant and tried to find a rich man to sell the seed to. While walking down the street of Giant, something caught his eye. A fine dressed man passed by. An idea lit up in his head. There was his perfect buyer, standing in front of him, sipping a cup of coffee. Jimbo Jackson struck a deal with the mysterious stranger. A blade of dead grass, a rotten fingernail clipping, and a piece of apple pie in exchange for the last seed of the truffula trees. Then, they each parted their ways with the special items in the palms of their hands....
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...In the movie Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, there is an exploration of the paradigm of sexual identity from nature through the pear tree, the bee and the flower, and the hurricane. The film follows the transition from childhood to adulthood of Janie Crawford, a mixed girl of black and white. Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of the development of Janie's ideals of love and independence. As a child, Janie sees a bee pollinating a flower in the pear tree of her backyard and from there becomes determined to find true everlasting love. According to Robert Solomon, “This "traditionalist" definition of sexual identity has sometimes been associated with one or more of the following additional positions: that certain...
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...China, a lot of family are really traditional, most of the kids would be raised by their grandparents, and my family is one of them. Because of the arduous business work for my parents, they didn't have time to take care of me, so that I grew up in my grandma's house. When I was young, everything I learned was from my grandma and her instructions and inspiration gave me an important benefit in the future of my life. Then, what does my grandma say? She told me to be honest. There is an interesting story that happened when I was 6. I lived in a big house with a huge garden. My grandma planted a persimmon tree in the backyard, so the happiest time for me every year when I eat persimmons. The story happened surrounded with this tree. In the summer of 2001, I went to the backyard for soccer and accidentally found out that there was a seldom ripen persimmon hanged from the tree. I was attracted by it, so that I used the ladder to climb and caught the only one persimmon. In the afternoon, my grandma asked me and my grandpa where the immature persimmon is. I couldnot tell her the truth. But she still found out the hidden persimmon in the my room. I thought she was going to be angry, but surprisingly, she was really calmed and told me:”...
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...What I Call Home In life everyone has their own dreams, whether it be about cars, houses, or their career. Most people I know dream to have the biggest and luxurious houses but I was always satisfied with mine. My house is not a tiny apartment nor a huge mansion but a two story, plain brown brick cozy house with white painted doors. The front yard is decorated with beautiful flowers; roses, lilies, violets, dahlias, daisies and much more, my mother usually plant them. She says, "Flowers are a pleasure and perfection of nature, and they give many things to people, and it does not matter if you are rich or poor, they give you a wonderful world which makes you feel happy". It definitely makes her and our neighbors happy. She shares the seeds of her flowers with the neighbors since they love and always compliment her garden. Walking through the front doors of my house after a long day of school always makes me feel so relaxed. There is always a smell of fresh vanilla or brown sugar candles the moment I walk through my white painted door. As I walk up the stairs and I see four bedrooms and a washroom. There is one bedroom for each of us in the family; my parents, brother, sister and myself. I usually go straight to my room when I get home. The walls in my room are painted a nice light green. There’s my bed in the middle of the room, a desk, night table and a closet. I have always wished I had a walk in closet but I'm comfortable with what I have now, this closet does me just fine...
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...If someone were to go deep into South Asia, in the southwestern part of India they would find the Muzhayanpunnackal household. Though that is the official name, many people refer to it as the Simon household. The Simon household is in the state of Kerala in a town called Ayroor. When someone first comes across this house, the first thing they will notice are the two tall coconut trees on the front corners of the lot. These coconut trees are about 70 feet tall. In most American households, there is nothing to guard the lot itself but there is a door in front of the house. However, in front of the lot in all Indian houses there is a gate. This gate is about 6 feet tall and is often locked. Once the gate is open there is the “driveway.” Driveway...
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...Week 6 Assignment Our team is building a tree house for a family in their backyard within a residential housing area. The project should be completed in thirty business days with a project budget not to exceed $25,000. All legal permits are required in order to start building, and the tree house is expected to be child safe and weather resistant. As a team we have stayed under budget because we have taken into account periodic costs through our risk analysis. As a team we have taken into account tree structural issues and periodic costs could incur here because of using more material to either strengthen by reinforcement with more wood and metal. We have taken into account what tools we need and annotated them in our risk analysis with cost over runs. During the project we may need to purchase extra materials and tools prior to the building phase. We did a good job forecasting such a need, one of the reasons we are still in budget. The only thing on this analysis we cannot account for is bad weather, however we allocated proper storage and workspace for such an event. For this tree building project we took into account the cumulative costs of the project manager, architect, construction workers, CAD design software of the tree house, wood, flooring, windows, doors, roof tiles, paint, insulation, tools, and nets. The cumulative cost of the pre-construction phase is $4,460.00 which includes getting the right personnel, the materials, and the tools for the...
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...The Story of Satsuki She was only a young one, she didn’t deserve what she had gotten that God forsaken day. 11 years old and her father just a simple teacher and her mother sick. “Just a cold!” she heard these words over and over. Every time her father would come back from the hospital, her and you 4 year old sister Mei would have to hear over and over again, “I’m afraid it’s not the simple cold we thought it was.” Satsuki knew better than to believe the doctors, to believe her father. It had gotten to the point where she didn’t cry or mourn anymore. She would just sit in silence. Until her father returned. Her father would go to the hospital every Wednesday and return with the news that their mother might be able to come back...
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