Tommy has 5 jars of marbles.Each jar is 2/3 filled with marbles how many full jars of marbles does Tommy have?
To find out how many full jars of marbles Tommy has, we need to determine how many jars are completely filled.
Each jar is 2/3 filled with marbles, which means that 2/3 of the jar's capacity is taken up by marbles.
So, to determine the number of full jars, we calculate 2/3 of the total number of jars that Tommy has.
Tommy has 5 jars, so we multiply 5 by 2/3:
5 * 2/3 = (5 * 2) / 3 = 10/3
Since we can't have a fraction of a jar, we need to round this result to the nearest whole number.
Hence, Tommy has 3 full jars of marbles.
To find out how many full jars of marbles Tommy has, we can use the information given. We know that each jar is 2/3 filled with marbles.
If we represent the total number of jars as "x", we can set up the equation:
x * (2/3) = total number of full jars
Since we want to find the number of full jars, we can solve for "x" by multiplying both sides of the equation by the reciprocal of 2/3, which is 3/2:
x = (total number of full jars) * (3/2)
Now, we just need to substitute the total number of jars into our equation. According to the given information, Tommy has 5 jars:
x = 5 * (3/2)
By simplifying the equation, we find:
x = 15/2
Thus, Tommy has 15/2 or 7.5 full jars of marbles.
that would of course be 5 * 2/3 = _____ jars
now round down to a whole number, if that's what you want.