Question

Putting soil is sold in bags that contain 1/2 cubic foot of soil. Estimate how many bags Rylee should buy.

Answer 1

Answer:

Ok. So, I can't see the image. Buttttt, depending on how many cubic feet she wants. If she wanted 5.5 cubic feet of soil, she would buy 10 bags of soil. Each showing 1/2 of a cubic foot. Use your fingers to help saying, " Half, One, One and a half, two, two and a half...." So on and so forth.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

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Answer:

  11 bags

Step-by-step explanation:

12. As you noted in problem 11, the volume needed to fill the three pots is 5.05 cubic feet. The number of bags needed is ...

  (5.05 ft³)/(0.5 ft³/bag) = 10.1 bags

10 bags is not quite enough. Rylee should buy 11 bags of potting soil.

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Additional comment

As a practical matter, the difference between what Rylee needs and what is contained in 10 bags is about 1%. It would be very difficult to tell that 0.1 cubic foot is missing if Rylee simply used the contents of 10 bags. If Rylee purchases 11 bags, most (4/5) of the last bag will remain unused.