Rita is painting the walls in the playrooms at the daycare center. She estimates that she will need 1/4 gallon of paint for each wall. How many walls can she paint with 5 gallons of paint?
5 ÷ 1/4 = 5 * 4/1 = ____
To find out how many walls Rita can paint with 5 gallons of paint, you need to divide the total amount of paint by the amount of paint needed for each wall.
First, let's convert 5 gallons to the same unit as the amount of paint needed for each wall. Since we know that 1 gallon is equivalent to 4 quarts, and there are 4 quarts in each gallon, we can multiply 5 by 4 to convert it to quarts.
5 gallons * 4 quarts/gallon = 20 quarts
Now that we have the amount of paint in quarts, we can proceed to find how many walls can be painted.
Since Rita estimates that she needs 1/4 gallon of paint for each wall, we can set up a proportion to find the number of walls:
1/4 gallon/wall = 20 quarts/x walls
To solve this proportion, cross multiply:
1/4 * x = 20 * 1
x/4 = 20
x = 20 * 4
x = 80
Therefore, Rita can paint 80 walls with 5 gallons of paint.
To find out how many walls Rita can paint with 5 gallons of paint, you need to divide the total amount of paint (5 gallons) by the amount needed to paint each wall (1/4 gallon).
To do this, you can use the formula:
Number of walls = Total amount of paint / Amount of paint needed per wall
In this case, substitute the values:
Number of walls = 5 gallons / 1/4 gallon
To divide by a fraction, we can multiply by its reciprocal:
Number of walls = 5 gallons * 4 gallons / 1
Multiplying, we get:
Number of walls = 20 gallons
Therefore, Rita can paint 20 walls with 5 gallons of paint.