Thursday Charity Give-away #13

Aha! Thursday, you sneaky little blighter! Slipped away from me again. I’ve been sick this week, so that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. :P

Anyway, this week won’t be a visual question (because I honestly didn’t prepare anything). So here it is, a maths question that I’ve shamelessly ripped from somewhere else with alterations to prevent you lot from searching for it :P

A farmer grows lettuces on his farm lot which is in the shape of a square. Each lettuce takes 1 square foot of area in the lot. This year, the farmer increased the output by 211 lettuces from last year. The lot used for growing the lettuces has remained a square in both of these years. How many lettuces did the farmer produce this year?

A. Cannot be determined
B. 14400
C. 11025
D. 11236
E. 12696

lettuce

Yes, lettuce...

So there you have it. Answers in the comment section below please. First correct answer (with workings ;) will get £20 towards the charity of their choice. Good luck. :)

5 thoughts on “Thursday Charity Give-away #13”

  1. Tala

    A. Cannot be determined

    It says how big they are but not the lot or even if the lot was completely filled. I had two others confirm this, not sure if that is considered cheating or not :P

    P.S. Get better!
    ♥Tala

  2. Sarah

    11236

    If the plot was always square, and the increase one year was 211 lettuces, then the extra ones could have been planted along just two sides of the square.
    The extra one in the corner could only be counted once, therefore 105 + 106 = 211 extra lettuces.
    However, when calculating the total number of lettuces that year, the sum would be 106 x 106, being the number of lettuces down each side, which equals 11236.

    Fingers crossed! :o)

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