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You have prizes to reveal! Go to yo Fifth grade Y.11 Multi-step problems with customary uni Instead of having a cake, Trent wants to make ice cream sundaes at his next birthday party. He thinks each person will eat 2 cups of ice cream, and there will be 24 people at his party. How many 1-gallon tubs of ice cream should he buy? tubs Submit

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Given data:

The number of cups of ice cream a person eats, N=2.

Total number of people attending the party, M=24.

So, the total number of cups of ice cream needed is,


\begin{gathered} T=N* M \\ =2*24 \\ =48\text{ cups} \end{gathered}

We know,


1galllon=16cups.

Therefore,


1\text{ cup=}(1)/(16)gallon

Therefore, the number of gallon tubs of ice cream to be bought is,


\begin{gathered} T=48*(1)/(16)\text{gallon} \\ =3\text{ gallons} \end{gathered}

Hence, 3 gallon tubs of ice cream is to be bought by Trent.

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