Mrs. Smith decides to build her own vegetable garden. She goes to Home Depot and buys material to

build beds for the vegetables she'll grow. The beds are big wooden boxes. Each bed is 10 feet long, 5 feet

wide, and 1 % feet tall. She builds 4 beds for her vegetable garden and fills each bed with dirt. The bags

of dirt each contain 1.5 ft of dirt. How many bags of soil did Mrs. Smith buy to fill all 4 beds?

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Giada Atkinson

31 March, 13:42

Mrs. Smith decides to build her own vegetable garden. She goes to Home Depot and buys material to

build beds for the vegetables she'll grow. The beds are big wooden boxes. Each bed is 10 feet long, 5 feet

wide, and 1 % feet tall. She builds 4 beds for her vegetable garden and fills each bed with dirt. The bags

of dirt each contain 1.5 ft of dirt. How many bags of soil did Mrs. Smith buy to fill all 4 beds?

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Danika Mitchell · Answer 1

Answer: 4 bags

Step-by-step explanation: since the height of the wooden boxes are 1.5 feet tall and they need the box to be full it will be 4 bags. Also because each bag contains 1.5 feet of dirt and that's the exact amount we need for one box.