SOLUTION: The number of half- pints in 19 gallons of milk?

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Question 617968: The number of half- pints in 19 gallons of milk?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Every one of those unit fractions has an equal numerator and denominator,
so quantity-wise they are all equal to 1.  In each unit fraction we pick
which one is to go on the denominator as the one which will cancel with a
unit in the preceding numerator.  I have abbreviated half-pints as "hfpt".

Cancel the gallons:

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Cancel the quarts:

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Cancel the pints:

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All we have left is

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304 half pints.

Edwin

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