Question

A waitress pours 3/4 gallon of juice equally into 5 pitchers what fraction of juice is in each pitcher write an equation to show the solution underline the two ways in which you need to show the answer to the problem

Answer 1

`(3)/(20) \text{ Gallons}`

Explanation:

The following information is given in the question:

Total amount of juice poured by waitress =
`(3)/(4) \text{ Gallons}`

Total number of Pitchers = 5

Amount of Juice poured in each pitcher =
`x`

`x = (3)/(4) / 5\\\\x = (3)/(4) * (1)/(5)\\\\x = (3)/(20) \text{ Gallons}`

Therefore, there is
`(3)/(20) \text{ Gallons}` of juice in each pitcher.

The two ways in which we can solve this problem is:

`x = (3)/(4) / 5\\\\x = (3)/(4) * (1)/(5)`