The Grow'm Good Nursery has somewhere 3 to 6 garden plots of herbs when it closes for the fall. In each plot there are 20 to 30 rosemary plants. If 10% of those plants typically don't winter over successfully, what is the largest number of plants that the nursery would lose during a typical winter?
Solution
The maximum number of rosemary plants would be 6 \cdot 30 = 180. If 10% of those plants are lost, then 18 plants would be affected.