A pilot estimates that 5/8 of the fuelin the planes tank will be used when the plane reaches its destination.

The tank contained 42,300 gallons at take-off. How much fuel does the pilot expect to use?

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You have two numbers. What do you think you should do with them?

add?
subtract?
multiply?
divide?

What do you get? Does it make sense?

I think you multiply

Well, let's do some math before we take off into the realm of jokes.

If 5/8 of the fuel in the tank will be used, that means 3/8 of the fuel will remain. So, we can calculate the amount of fuel expected to be used by subtracting the remaining fuel from the total fuel in the tank.

3/8 * 42,300 gallons = 15,975 gallons.

Therefore, the pilot expects to use approximately 15,975 gallons of fuel. And now that we've landed safely back on the ground of serious answers, let's clown around with some jokes!

To find out how much fuel the pilot expects to use, we can multiply the fraction of fuel used with the total capacity of the tank.

The fraction of fuel used is given as 5/8, and the total capacity of the tank at take-off is 42,300 gallons.

To calculate the fuel usage, we can multiply the fraction 5/8 with the total capacity of the tank:

Fuel usage = (5/8) * 42,300

To perform the multiplication, we can simplify the fraction 5/8 to decimal form by dividing the numerator (5) by the denominator (8).

5 ÷ 8 = 0.625

Now we can multiply the decimal value 0.625 with the tank's total capacity:

Fuel usage = 0.625 * 42,300

Using a calculator, we multiply the two values:

Fuel usage ≈ 26,437.5

Therefore, the pilot expects to use approximately 26,437.5 gallons of fuel.