SOLUTION: The number of gallons of coffee a mathematician drinks on any given day is inversely proportional to how much sleep he gets the night before. On Monday, he got 9 hours of sleep and

Question 1012887: The number of gallons of coffee a mathematician drinks on any given day is inversely proportional to how much sleep he gets the night before. On Monday, he got 9 hours of sleep and drank 2 gallons of coffee. On Tuesday, he got 6 hours of sleep. How many gallons of coffee did he drink?
Found 2 solutions by addingup, ikleyn:
Answer by addingup(3677) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
y= k/x where y is the amount of coffee, k is the constant, and x the hours of sleep.
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Let's first find our constant, we know that for 9 hours sleep he drank 2 gallon:
2= k/9 multiply both sides by 9:
k= 18 this is our constant.
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Now let's find y (the number of gallon)
y= 18/x
y= 18/6 = 3 gallon
Answer by ikleyn(52864) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The number of gallons of coffee a mathematician drinks on any given day is inversely proportional to how much sleep he gets
the night before. On Monday, he got 9 hours of sleep and drank 2 gallons of coffee. On Tuesday, he got 6 hours of sleep.
How many gallons of coffee did he drink?
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Use the proportion ("inverse proportion")

= ,

or

= .

Thus x = = 3 gallons.

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