A custodian pours1/8 gallon of cleaning solution into each pail of water that she uses. how many pails of water and cleaning solution can the custodian make using 16 gallons of cleaning solution?
Is it 8 pails of water?
note that each gallon of cleaning solution treats 8 pails of water.
So, now how many pails, to use up 16 gallons of solution?
Thanks!
What is the volume of two of the buckets?
To find out the number of pails of water and cleaning solution that the custodian can make using 16 gallons of cleaning solution, we need to determine how many times 1/8 gallon can go into 16 gallons.
To do this, we can set up a proportion:
1/8 gallon is to 16 gallons as x pails is to 1.
This can be written as: 1/8 = x/16
To solve for x, we can cross-multiply:
1 * 16 = 8 * x
16 = 8x
Now we can divide both sides of the equation by 8 to isolate x:
16/8 = x
2 = x
So, the custodian can make 2 pails of water and cleaning solution using 16 gallons of cleaning solution.