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Shirley's water bottle is half full. She pours it into another bottle that is

one-third full, and it fills that bottle. If the second bottle holds 2 quarts,
how much did the first bottle hold? *

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User TomJohn
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User Jake Moritz
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The first bottle hold 6 quarts of water.

Solving word problems.

Solving word problems involves writing of problems in mathematical convention by using the appropriate form.

From the information given:

  • The second bottle is 1/3 rd full
  • The first bottle is half full

Suppose we represent the capacity of the first bottle with w.

Then the capacity of the second bottle as 1/3 of w expressed in 2 quarts.

Then ;


(1)/(3)w=2

w = 3 × 2

w = 6

Therefore, we can conclude that the first bottle hold 6 quarts of water.

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