Question

A bucket can hold 11.4 liters of water. A kiddie pool needs 35 gallons of water to be full. How many times will the bucket need to be filled to fill the kiddie pool?

Answer 1

To fill a kiddie pool that requires 35 gallons of water, one would need to fill an 11.4-liter bucket approximately 12 times, converting gallons to liters and then dividing the pool's liter capacity by the bucket's capacity.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how many times the bucket needs to be filled to fill the kiddie pool, we must first convert gallons to liters since the kiddie pool capacity is given in gallons and the bucket capacity is in liters. According to the information provided, 1 gallon is approximately equivalent to 3.79 liters. Multiplying the pool capacity in gallons (35 gallons) by the conversion factor gives us the pool's capacity in liters. The calculation would be 35 gallons × 3.79 liters/gallon.

Once we find the total liters needed to fill the pool, we can then divide this by the capacity of the bucket (11.4 liters) to find the number of times the bucket would need to be filled. Let's carry out these computations:

1. Convert the pool capacity to liters: 35 gallons × 3.79 liters/gallon = 132.65 liters.
2. Divide the pool capacity in liters by the bucket capacity: 132.65 liters ÷ 11.4 liters/bucket ≈ 11.64.

Since we can't fill a bucket partially for practical reasons, we would need to fill the bucket 12 times to have enough water to fill the kiddie pool completely.