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Albert uses 8 liters if water to wash a car and spills an addititional liter per 2 cars. What would be the total amount of water needed to wash 4 cars?

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the total amount is 16 liters of water
User Abhinav Sarkar
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It takes 8 liters to wash each car. So 4*8 is 32 liters. But Albert spills water too because he is clumsy. So each time he washed 2 cars, he spills a liter of water. He washed 4 cars so he spilled 2 additional liters of water. 32+2=34.
34 liters of water
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