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Top soil is sold by the cubic yard. How much top soil, to the nearest cubic yard, is needed to create a flower bed with soil 4 feet wide by 25 feet long by 6 inches deep?

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you find the volume of the flower bed (4 times 25 time 6) this is 600. but you then realize that you need to convert the 6 inches into ft. so you do 25 times 4 /2 which is 50. 50/9 is rounded up to 6. Just notes: Although, when you do this, your units are in ft squared. you need to get them into yards. there are 3 feet in one yard. So, divide 600 by 9. (you need to multiply 3 times 3 to cancel out the ft squared). your answer is a
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