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3.4 Exercise 43

Avg difficulty 2.5

James is mixing soil for a raised garden, in which he plans to grow a variety of vegetables. For the soil to be suitable, he determines that 25\frac{2}{5} of the soil can be topsoil, but 25\frac{2}{5} needs to be peat moss and 15\frac{1}{5} has to be compost. To fill the raised garden bed with 60 cubic feet of soil, how much of each component does James need to use?

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