Question

What is the total amount of sap the trees produced that day?

Answer 1

5 gallons

Explanation:

because if u add all togather u get 6/8+26/8+8/8+40/8= It would be 5 Gallons

Answer 2

Each "x" represents one tree that produced that amount of sap in gallons.

To find the total amount of sap produced, add all of the amount of sap produced from each tree

3 trees produced 1/4 gallons of sap

2 trees produced 3/8 gallons of sap

4 trees produced 5/8 gallons of sap

1 tree produced 1 gallon of sap

You can do this:

`(1)/(4)+(1)/(4)+(1)/(4)+(3)/(8)+(3)/(8) +(5)/(8)+(5)/(8)+(5)/(8)+(5)/(8)+1`

`=(3)/(4)+(6)/(8)+(20)/(8)+1`

`(3)/(4)+(26)/(8)+1` Make all the denominators the same

`(6)/(8)+(26)/(8)+(8)/(8)=(40)/(8)=5`

5 gallons

Or you could have done:

`((1)/(4) *3)+((3)/(8)*2)+((5)/(8)*4)+(1*1)`

`=(3)/(4)+(6)/(8)+(20)/(8)+1`

`(3)/(4)+(26)/(8)+1` Make all the denominators the same

`(6)/(8)+(26)/(8)+(8)/(8)=(40)/(8)=5`

5 gallons