An art teacher has 3/4 gallon of paint to pour into containers. If he poured 1/8 gallon of paint into each container until he ran out of paint, how many containers had paint in them.?
3/4 x 8/1 =24/4=6 so is this right. The answer is 6
Yes, That is correct
To solve this problem, you can divide the total amount of paint by the amount of paint poured into each container.
The art teacher has 3/4 gallon of paint.
To find out how many containers the teacher can fill, you need to divide the total amount of paint (3/4) by the amount of paint poured into each container (1/8).
Dividing fractions involves multiplying the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction. Therefore, 3/4 divided by 1/8 can be written as 3/4 multiplied by 8/1:
(3/4) x (8/1) = (3 x 8) / (4 x 1) = 24/4 = 6
So, the answer is 6 containers had paint in them.