Chart with a month bill for water which is $35.00. Question is Lynne has a watering can that holds 16 cups of water, and she fills it half full. Then she waters her 15 plants so that each plant gets the same amount of water. How many cups of water will each plant get? Please show how to write a fraction to represent the division in each situation. Thanks
strange question.
since she uses 8 cups of water for 15 plants,
each plant will get 8/15 cups of water.
Where does the $35 water bill enter the picture ???
To find out how many cups of water each plant will get, we need to divide the total amount of water in Lynne's watering can by the number of plants.
First, let's calculate how many cups of water there are in Lynne's watering can when it is half full. If the full capacity of the watering can is 16 cups, filling it half full will give us:
16 cups / 2 = 8 cups
Now, we need to divide the 8 cups of water equally among the 15 plants. To represent this division as a fraction, we can write it as:
8 cups / 15 plants
This fraction tells us that we are dividing the 8 cups equally among the 15 plants.
Therefore, each plant will get 8/15 cups of water.
Alternatively, we can simplify the fraction:
8/15 cups = 4/7.5 cups = 4/15 * 2/5 cups (multiply numerator and denominator by 2)
So, each plant will receive 4/15 * 2/5 cups of water, which is equal to 8/75 cups of water.