Question

76 POINTS IF YOU CAN ANSWER THIS!!!The amount of water an electric dishwasher uses to wash dishes varies directly with the number of loads of dishes. The dishwasher uses 32 gallons of water to wash 4 loads of dishes.

How many gallons of water will the dishwasher use to wash 10 loads of dishes?

Record your answer and fill in the bubbles on your answer document. Be sure to use the correct place value.

Answer 1

Answer: 80 gallons of water.

Step-by-step explanation: For 10 loads of dishes, you need 80 gallons of water. To find this you need to use the information that was given. For 4 loads of dishes, you use 32 gallons of water. You can do 2x32 to find out how many gallons of water you use for 8 loads of dishes (which is 64). To get 10 loads of dishes you need 2 more loads of dishes so you would do 32 divided by 2 (16) to find out how many gallons it would take. In all, you add 64 and 16 to get 80 gallons of water for 10 dishes.

Answer 2

80

Explanation:

Since you need 10 loads you know that for 4 loads you use 32 gallons. And to go from 4 to 10 you divide 10 and 4 to get an answer of 2.5. So all you have to do is multiple 32 gallons by 2.5 to then get an answer of 80.