In preparation for a storm, the town council boys 13,750 pounds of sand to fill sandbags. Volunteers are trying to decide whether to fill bags that can hold 25 pounds of sand bags or bags that can hold 50 pounds of sand. Will they have more or fewer sandbags if they fill the 15 pound bags? How any more or fewer? Explain your reasoning.please help answer

The answer is more than and 275 more because if u divide 13,750 by 50 you will get 275and if you divide 13,750 by 25 you will get 550 and is more than 275

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in preparation for a store the town council by 13750 pounds of sand to fiil the same bags volunteers are trying to decide whether she fiils bags they can't hold 25 pounds of thing or bad thing can hold 50 pounds of sand bags will they have more or fewer than bags if they feel the 25 pound bag how many more or fewer explain the reasoning

Woah! Where did the 15# bags come from?

Clearly, there will be more bags if the hold less.

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Iwas looking for a decent answer,sorry Nevaeh, I have no idea what you said.

Hmm! Interesting! Well, it sounds like an ok answer. Thank you Neveah for your answer. It sounds long, but decent. :)

To find out how many sandbags they will have if they fill the 15-pound bags, we need to divide the total weight of sand (13,750 pounds) by the weight capacity of each bag (15 pounds).

The formula to calculate the number of sandbags is:

Number of sandbags = Total weight of sand / Weight capacity of each bag

So, if we plug in the values:

Number of sandbags = 13,750 pounds / 15 pounds

Calculating this, we get:

Number of sandbags = 916.67

Now, we need to consider whether they can have a fraction of a sandbag or if they need to have whole sandbags. In this case, we can assume they will have to have whole sandbags. Therefore, they can only have 916 whole sandbags.

Now, let's find out how many sandbags they would have if they fill the 25-pound bags. We'll use the same formula:

Number of sandbags = Total weight of sand / Weight capacity of each bag

Number of sandbags = 13,750 pounds / 25 pounds

Calculating this, we get:

Number of sandbags = 550

Now, comparing the two numbers, we can see that if they fill the 15-pound bags, they will have fewer sandbags. They will have a total of 550 sandbags if they fill the 25-pound bags and 916 if they fill the 15-pound bags.

So, by using the 15-pound bags, they will have 366 more sandbags (916 - 550 = 366) than if they were to use the 25-pound bags.