SOLUTION: A container is 15cm high. It is one quarter full of water. When 400ml of water is added to the container, the height of the water increases by 2cm. After the 400 ml of water has be

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Question 995424: A container is 15cm high. It is one quarter full of water. When 400ml of water is added to the container, the height of the water increases by 2cm. After the 400 ml of water has been added, how much more water must be added to container B to fill it completely?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
, important ratio.

capacity of the container.

That takes care of the first two sentences., .. almost.
-------The amount of water initially in the container.

How much more water to completely fill?

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