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Lynn has a watering can that holds 16 cups of water, and she fills it half full. Then she waters her 23 plants

so that each plant gets the same amount of water. How many cups of water will each plant get?
Each plant will get how many
cup(s) of water.?

Lynn has a watering can that holds 16 cups of water, and she fills it half full. Then-example-1
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Answer:

Step-by-step explanation: 23 divided by 8 is 2.875 which means they will each get 2.875 cups

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Since the watering can is half full you would have 16 cups of water. If you do 8/23 you would get 0.347826087 or about 0.35 cups of water per plant.
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