SOLUTION: You have a large container of olive oil. You have used 22-½ quarts of oil. Twenty-five percent of the olive oil remains. How many quarts of olive oil remain?

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Question 1112083: You have a large container of olive oil. You have used 22-½ quarts of oil.
Twenty-five percent of the olive oil remains. How many quarts of olive oil
remain?
Answer by ikleyn(52798) About Me  (Show Source):
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"Twenty-five percent of the olive oil remains."   It means that one forth remains.


Hence, three fourths were used.


Thus three fourths is this amount of 22.5 quarts.


It means that one fourth is 7.5 quarts.


It is exactly how much oil remains.


Answer.  7.5 quarts of oil remains.