Question

A custodian plans to repaint some book cases. She has 3 3/4 gallons of paint. All of the book cases are the same size and requires 1/2 gallon of paint . How many bookcases can she repaint ?

Answer 1

7.5

Explanation:

The computation of the number of bookcases can she repaint is shown below:

`= 3 (3)/(4) / (1)/(2)\\\\= (15)/(4) * 2\\\\= (30)/(4) \\\\= 7.5`

Hence, the 7.5 bookcases could be repainted