Question

Maya needs 54 cubic feet of soil for her garden. She already has 4.5 cubic feet of soil. Each bag contains 1.5 cubic feet of soil. How many bags of soil should Maya purchase?

Answer 1

she needs to purchase 33 more bags

Answer 2

Maya should purchase 33 bags of soil.

Explanation:

Let 'x' be the number of bags of soil.

Given is that each bag contains 1.5 cubic feet of soil. And Maya already has 4.5 cubic feet of soil. So, we can relate this as:

`y=4.5+1.5x`

As, Maya needs 54 cubic feet of soil in total; so we will put
`y=54`

`54=4.5+1.5x`

`1.5x=49.5`

`x=33`

Therefore, Maya needs 33 bags of soil.