Question

A gasoline container that is 1/8 full can fill up 2/8 of a gas tank. How many containers are needed to fill up the gas tank.

Answer 1

To fill up the gas tank, it would take 2 containers.

Step-by-step explanation:

• To find out how many containers are needed to fill up the gas tank, we need to compare the fractions representing the amount of gas each can hold.

• Since 1/8 of a container can fill up 2/8 of the tank, we can simplify this to 1/8 ÷ 2/8.
• Dividing fractions can be done by multiplying the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction.
• Therefore, 1/8 ÷ 2/8 = 1/8 × 8/2 = 8/16.
• Simplifying this fraction gives us 1/2.
• So, it would take 2 containers to fill up the gas tank.

Answer 2

We needed 2 containers fill up the gas tank.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that gasoline container is full of = 1/8 of the tank.

We need to fill tank upto = 2/8th of the tank.

Therefore,

Number of containers are needed to fill up the gas tank =
`((Total \ volume \ need \ to \ fill) )/( (Total \ volume \ already \ contain)) .`

Plugging values in above formula, we get

Number of containers are needed to fill up the gas tank =
`(2/8)/(1/8)`.

Converting division into multiplication, the fraction 1/4 would flip to 8/1.

Therefore,

`(2/8)/(1/8)` =
`(2)/(8) * (8)/(1) = 2.`

Therefore, we needed 2 containers to fill up the gas tank.