A toy company makes rectangular sandboxes that measure 6 feet by 5 feet by 1.2 feet. A customer buys a sandbox and 40 cubic feet of sand. Did the customer buy too much or too little sand?

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Meave60
Mar 24, 2018

The customer bought more sand than is needed to fill the sandbox.

Explanation:

The volume of the sandbox is:

#"6 ft"xx"5 ft"xx"1.2 ft"="36 ft"^3"#

The customer bought more sand than is needed to fill the sandbox.

Whether it is too much depends on the size of the bags of sand available, and whether he or she wants to keep some excess sand in case of the loss of sand from the sandbox (which, as a grandparent, I can guarantee will be needed).

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