Afarmer is going to plant carrots on 5 3/14 acres, corn on 4 23/42 acres and peppers on 2 5/21 acres. if each acre requires 6 bags of fertilizer, how many bags of fertilizer does the farmer need to plant all the acres?

Hmm we do the same as before, you convert the mixed fractions to "improper fractions" by simply making the numerator the product and sum like you saw it

so



now, that's how many acres the farmer has in total
now, if each acre takes 6 bags of fertilizer, well, you surely know how much that is.

He will need 2,898 pieces of paper