Final answer:
To find out how much water one jar holds when 8 jars hold 100 liters, we divide 100 liters by 8, resulting in 12.5 liters per jar.
Step-by-step explanation:
When we have 8 jars holding 100 liters of water, we want to find out the volume that one jar can hold.
Knowing that the volume units we're working with are liters, as it's common to measure liquid capacity in liters, we simply divide the total volume of water by the number of jars to find the capacity of one jar.
If 8 jars hold 100 liters of water, we divide 100 liters by 8 to find the capacity of one jar.
So, 100 liters ÷ 8 jars = 12.5 liters per jar. Thus, one jar would hold 12.5 liters of water.
To put this in context with everyday objects, a soda bottle commonly holds about 1 liter of liquid, which means one jar in this problem would hold approximately the same as 12 and a half soda bottles.
A smaller unit such as a cup, which is about 0.25 liters, is not ideal for this context since we're dealing with larger quantities.