Answer:
21 years.
Step-by-step explanation:
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The first thing we do is subtract the 3 shrubs from the first year from the total 148.
148 - 3 = 145
We then take 29 from 145, as the supermarket wants less than 30 shrubs on their property, so the maximum amount they want to keep is actually 29.
145 - 29 = 116
The supermarket can pay to have 6 shrubs cut down every year, excluding the first, so we need to do then is divide 116 by 6.
116 ÷ 6 = 19.333.
Because that equation leaves us with a decimal, we have to round up to get a whole number because the answer has to be in years, not years and months.
19.333 rounded up is 20.
So that's 20 years of paying for 6/per year. We have to add on the one year they only payed for 3 shrubs to be cut down, making the answer;
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We can further confirm we have the right answer by doing;
6 × 20 = 120
145 - 120 = 25
Because we're going down in 6's, we know that 20 is the lowest amount of years it would take to get less than 30 shrubs, because 25 + 6 = 31.
