Question

June needs 48 gallons of punch

for a party and has two different
coolers to carry it in. The bigger
cooler is five times as large as the
smaller cooler. How many gallons
can each cooler hold?

Answer 1

David needs 36.> gallons of punch for a party and has two different coolers to carry it in. The bigger cooler is 5. times as large as the smaller cooler.

Answer 2

Smaller cooler can hold 8 gallons and the bigger cooler can hold 40 gallons.

Explanation:

Given: June needs 48 gallons of punch for a party and has two different

coolers to carry it in. The bigger cooler is five times as large as the

smaller cooler.

To find: How many gallons can each cooler hold?

Solution: Let the smaller cooler can carry x gallons of punch.

As per the question, the larger cooler will carry 5x gallons of punch.

Now, it is given that June needs 48 gallons of punch for a party.

So, we have an equation as
`x+5x=48`

On solving, the above equation for x we have,

`x+5x=48`

`6x=48`

`x=8`

So, the smaller cooler can hold 8 gallons of punch and the bigger cooler can hold
`8*5=40` gallons.

Hence, smaller cooler can hold 8 gallons of punch and the bigger cooler can hold 40 gallons of punch.