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Pocahontas has a container with 4/5 of a quart of lemonade. She pours an equal amount into 2 cups. There’s still 1/2 of a quart of lemonade remaining in the container. How much lemonade, and quartz, is poured into each cup?

User Nick Sonneveld
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Given

Container has 4/5 of a quart

She use 2 cups and there’s still 1/2 of a quart

Then, we have the following expressions:

Let x amount of a quart into 2 cups.


\begin{gathered} x+(1)/(2)=(4)/(5) \\ \end{gathered}

So, solve for x:


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