Question

Mrs McDonald used 4 1/4 gallons of water to water her flowers .if she used 1/4 of the water on her flowers daisies , how many gallons of water did she use on the daisies?

Answer 1

1.0625 gallons of water was used by her.

Explanation:

Mrs McDonald used
`4(1)/(4)` gallons of water to water her flowers.

She used
`(1)/(4)` of the water on her flowers daisies.

We have to calculate the gallons of water used by her to water daisies.

Let Mrs McDonald used G gallons of water to water the flowers daisies.

Then one fourth of
`4(1)/(4)` = G

`G=((1)/(4)).((17)/(4))`

`G=(17)/(16)=1.0625 gallons`

Therefore 1.0625 gallons of water she used on the daisies.

Answer 2

the amount of water she used to water her flowers was 4 1/4 .
she has used 1/4 of this water to water her daisies.
therefore 1/4 of the water she used was to water daisies.
then its 1/4 of 4 1/4.

if we write 4 1/4 as an improper fraction , 4 wholes equal to 16/4 + 1/4 = 17/4. then we have to find 1/4 of 17/4 which is
`(1*17)/(4*4) = (17)/(16)`.
then we can mulitply the denominators by denominators and numerators by numerators. then answer is 17/16.
If we divide 17 by 16 we get 1.0625


she used 1.0625 gallons of water to water daisies