Question

Jimmy wants to serve iced tea at his birthday party. He purchases 14 containers filled with 1.5 liters of tea. Approximately how gallons of tea did he purchase? (1 gallon is about 3.8 liters)

21 gallons

5.5 gallons

79.8 gallons

8.7 gallons

Answer 1

5.5 gallons

Explanation:

set up a proportion; Liters in numerator and Gallons in denominator

let x = approx number of gallons

21 = 3.8

x 1

3.8x = 21

x = 21 ÷ 3.8

x ≈ 5.5