Question 834022: A bucket has 56 liters of water in it when it is 4/5 full. How much can it hold? Found 2 solutions by stanbon, sofiyac:Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A bucket has 56 liters of water in it when it is 4/5 full. How much can it hold?
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Let "x" be the amount the bucket can hold.
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Equation:
(4/5)x = 56
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Multiply both sides by 5/4 to get:
x = (5/4)56
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x = 5*(56/4) = 5*14 = 70 liters
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! ratio problem, when the bucket is full it will hold 5 out 5 or 5/5 which is 1 (as in 1 whole bucket. So x liters when the bucket is full.
56---4/5
x----1
Multiply across and you get now solve for x multiply each side by 5/4 so that you get x by itself liters
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