A family consumes 5/8 of a one gallon container of milk every three days worth of milk every three days. How much milk does the family consume in 4 days. Write in simplest form

Essentially what you're given is the following

The easiest way to approach this problem is to use the given information to find the amount of milk the family consumes over the course of a day.

So now that we know that the family drinks gallons of milk each day, we can multiply by the desired amount of days to discover how much milk the family drinks over that period of time.

So from this, we now know that the family drinks gallons of milk over the course of 4 days.

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step-by-step explanation:

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so i draw the horizontal line y=2 and the vertical line x=-2 at this intersection i put b (this is where my right angle is going to be).   so point b is at (-2,2).   point a is 5 units long and is also on y=2 so this point has to be (3,2) or (-7,2) -doesn't matter i will go with (3,2).

now we know c is at (-2,y) we don't know the y yet bet we know that c is on x=-2.

we have the area of the triangle is .5bh=12.5

we know the base length is 5 (ab)

we have the height is (2-y) if you look at your

plug in

.5(5)(2-y)=12.5

solve for y to get the y-coordinate for c

2.5(2-y)=12.5

divide both sides by 2.5 giving:

2-y=5

now subtract 2 on both sides

-y=3

y=-3