Can you explain how to answer this question? Tara wants to set up 5 water coolers outside the skating rink to allow skaters to hydrate themselves. She buys 80 gallons to distribute evenly to each cooler and 8 ounce cups for drinking the water. How many cups will each cooler of water fill?

256 cups

Step-by-step explanation:

In this question, we are asked to calculate the number of 8-ounce cups that each of the cooler of water will fill.

This is obviously a conversion type of question. We proceed as follows;

She buys 80 gallons to distribute in 5 coolers, this means each cooler will contain 80/5 = 16 gallons each of water.

Now let’s get the equivalent of this in ounce.

Mathematically, 1 gallon contains 128 ounces.

Since one cooler contains 16 gallons, this means each cooler will contain 16 * 128 = 2,048 ounces of water

Now, we know each cooler of water is to fill a series of 8- ounce cups. We now need to calculate the number of 8-ounce cups that will be filled by the 2,048 ounces cooler.

Mathematically, this is 2,048/8 = 256 cups

step-by-step explanation:

12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 7 hours.

4: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 3 hours.

this means that from 4: 00 p.m to 7: 00 p.m. this represents 3/7 of what was lost from 12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m.

after knowing this, after doing 11,600 - 6,800 = 4,800

4,800 represents 3/7 of what was lost for 7 hours.

we then divide 4,800 by 3 which gets 1,600.

because we know that 1,600 represents 1/7 of how much water was lost, we just have to multiply by 7, which gets 11,200.   after adding 11,200 to how much water was left at 7: 00 p.m. which was 6,800. 11,200 + 6,800 = 18,000

this means that the pool originally had 18,000 gallons in the pool.

you can also check your work by doing 18,000 - 4(1600), which becomes           1800 - 6400 which gets you 11,600.

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