When mowing a one acre lot, assuming the mower being used has a 24 inch base, how many miles are walked?

Question

How many miles are walked when mowing a one acre lot assuming the mower has a 24 inch base? An acre is approximately 209ft. X 209 ft.

Answer 1

You need to make 2-foot wide lines across a 209 ft. wide square, so that would take 209/2, or 105 full passes. In each pass, you travel 209 feet, so you travel a total distance of 21945 feet. 5280 feet are in a mile, so that's 4.16 miles.

Answer 2

There are two possible ways to answer this question:

- mathematically by crunching theoretical numbers
- using engineering logic to make sense of the question

Mathematically you could say that the area to be mowed is 209 x 209 ft, so the distance walked would just be that area divided by the width of the mower (2 ft).

This results in 104.5 x 209 = 21, 840.5 ft. Since there are 5280 ft in a mile, that distance is 4.136 miles.

Logically, when the person has made 104 trips the width of the lot, there is still a one foot section of grass that needs to be mowed, and he cannot make 'half a trip' to cut that portion. Therefore he needs to walk the entire 209 feet one last time (although only half the mower is cutting the grass), which results in 105 trips down the width of the lot.

This means the person would have cut an area 210 x 209, and he would have walked 105 x 209 ft = 21945 ft. Dividing by the same 5280 feet per mile, that is 4.156 miles.

Not much of a difference, but just in case you needed that accuracy.

Answer 3

One acre is approximately 40 3,560 squareft. A 0.5 acre is for this reason ~ 21,780 squareft. anticipate a conventional mower deck is two ft extensive. for this reason possible stroll ~ 10,890 ft, or in basic terms over 2 miles to mow the area

Answer 4

An acre is 43560 square feet. Your mower is 2 feet across.

43560/2 = 21780

So you are mowing a strip that is 21780 feet long.
And there are 5280 feet in a mile so

21780/5280 = 4.125 miles

Answer 5

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