A pot contains 25 ounces of soil. You use 4 1/4 ounces of soil to plant 1 herb. Is there enough soil in the pot to plant 5 herbs?

multiply 4 1/4 by 5 then see if you have enough .

Step-by-step explanation: multiply 4 1/4 by 5 because you have used 1 herb already so if you do that you could have enough in there to pot 5 .

we have three similar triangles, because each has a right angle and shares an angle.   let's write the angles in order: opposite to short leg, long leg, hypotenuse.

cab similar to bad similar to cbd

or as ratios,

ca: ab: cb = ba: ad: bd = cb: bd: cd

we also know

ac = ad + cd

(ad+cd): ab: cb = ba: ad: bd = cb: bd: cd

(ad+cd)/cb=cb/cd

we have cb=6, ad=5 and seek x=cd.

we reject the negative root and conclude x=4

answer: 4