Answer:
There are 1344 pound of sand will it take to fill the sand box
Step-by-step explanation:
* Lets explain how to solve the problem
- A bag of a certain type of sand weighs 42 pounds
- The volume of the bag is 0.5 cubic feet
- The volume of a sand box is 16 cubic feet
- We need to know how many pounds of sand will it take from the
bags to fill the sand box
- To know that we must to calculate the number of sand bags will
used to fill the sand box with sand
- The number of bags = volume of the box ÷ volume of a bag
∵ The volume of a bag is 0.5 feet³
∵ The volume of the box is 16 feet³
∵ The number of bags = volume box ÷ volume bag
∴ The number of bags = 16 ÷ 0.5 = 32
∴ The number of the bags of sand is 32
- To fill the sand box with sand we need 32 bags of sand
∵ The weight of each bag is 42 bounds
∵ The number of bags that will fill the sand box is 32
∴ The number of pounds = 32 × 42 = 1344 pounds of sand
* There are 1344 pound of sand will it take to fill the sand box
