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To fill a planting bed, Mr.Carver uses 5 buckets of soil to 4 buckets peat moss. He needs to use 324 buckets in all to fill the bed. How many buckets of soil and peat moss will he use?

please help bc i am kristinas little sister :(

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Buckets of Soil : Buckets of Peat Moss = 5 : 4

Since Mr Carver needs to use 324 buckets in all,

He needs to use 324 * 5/9 = 180 buckets of Soil and 324 * 4/9 = 144 buckets of Peat Moss.

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