Your city wants to replace a fence around the city baseball field property including the parking lot. The city learns that the total distance around the property is 1 1/2 of a mile. They already have enough fencing to cover 3/4 of a mile. How much more distance of fencing would they need

Answer 1

To find out how much more distance of fencing the city would need, we need to subtract the distance of fencing they already have from the total distance around the property.

The total distance around the property is 1 1/2 miles.

The distance of fencing they already have is 3/4 of a mile.

Subtracting the distance they already have from the total distance, we have:
1 1/2 - 3/4
= 3/2 - 3/4
= 6/4 - 3/4
= (6 - 3)/4
= 3/4

Therefore, the city would need an additional 3/4 of a mile of fencing.