SOLUTION: #6. Before Joey paints his house, he puts blue paint into 2 buckets of different sizes. He notices that the volume of the larger bucket is 3 times the volume of the smaller bucket.
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Question 1199517: #6. Before Joey paints his house, he puts blue paint into 2 buckets of different sizes. He notices that the volume of the larger bucket is 3 times the volume of the smaller bucket. Joey estimates that the larger bucket is 1/4 full and the smaller bucket is one-third full. He decides to pour all the paint in the larger
bucket. After that, how full is the larger bucket? Answer by ikleyn(52890) (Show Source):
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#6. Before Joey paints his house, he puts blue paint into 2 buckets of different sizes.
He notices that the volume of the larger bucket is 3 times the volume of the smaller bucket.
Joey estimates that the larger bucket is 1/4 full and the smaller bucket
is one-third full. He decides to pour all the paint in the larger
bucket. After that, how full is the larger bucket?
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At the beginning, the small bucket was 1/3 full.
It means that the volume of the blue paint in the small bucket was = of
the volume of the large bucket.
Hence, the total volume of the paint in the large bucket after pouring is
+ = = of the volume of the large bucket.
ANSWER. After pouring all the paint in the larger bucket, it is gull.
