a bag of a certain type of sand weighs 42 pounds and has a volume of 0.5 cubic feet. a sand box has a volume of 16 cubic feet. approximately how many pounds of sand will it take to fill the sandbox?

There are 1344 pound of sand will it take to fill the sand box

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- 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