Dana and sandbox
Dana helped her dad build a sandbox for her younger sister. The sandbox is shaped like a rectangular prism, 4 1/2 feet long and 4 feet wide. Dana used bags of sand to fill the sandbox 1/2 of a foot deep. Each bag contained 1/2 of a cubic foot of sand. How many bags must she buy?
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