Question

You are canning 40 cups of applesauce. You have 20 glass jars, each of which will hold 134 cups of applesauce. Choose the correct explanation(s) that explain why you do not have enough jars.

1:You do not have enough jars because 20 jars will only hold 35 cups of applesauce.
2:You do not have enough jars because you have enough applesauce left to completely fill 2 more jars, and almost fill a third jar.
3:You do not have enough jars because you need a total of 40×1 3/4 =70 jars.
4:You do not have enough jars because the 20 jars would need to hold 2 cups each, but each holds 1/4 cup less than that.

Answer 1

The correct explanation is 2: You do not have enough jars because you have enough applesauce left to completely fill 2 more jars, and almost fill a third jar.

Step-by-step explanation:

The correct explanation is 2: You do not have enough jars because you have enough applesauce left to completely fill 2 more jars, and almost fill a third jar.

In this case, you are canning 40 cups of applesauce, and each jar can hold 134 cups. Therefore, the total number of jars needed would be 40/134, which is approximately 0.298 jars. Since you cannot have a fraction of a jar, you would need to round up to the nearest whole number.

This means that you would need at least 1 jar to hold the entire batch of applesauce, and you would have enough applesauce left to fill 2 more jars, and almost fill a third jar.