Question

Sam picked 1/2 gallon of blueberries. he poured the blueberries into one of his plastic containers and noticed that the berries filled the container 2/3 full. how many gallons of blueberries does it take to fill sam’s container completely full?

Answer 1

3/4 gallons of blueberries

Explanation:

we know that

1/2 gallon of blueberries filled the container 2/3 full

so

using proportion

Find out how many gallons of blueberries does it take to fill Sam’s container completely full

Remember that

completely full (100% filled) is the same that the fraction 3/3 or 1

so

`((1/2))/((2/3))=(x)/(1)\\\\x=(1)/(2):(2)/(3)\\\\x= (1*3)/(2*2)\\\\x=(3)/(4)\ gal`