Question

Lana's little sister needs to take a bubble bath. The package says to put in a drop of bubble bath for every half gallon of water in the bath tub. Lana doesn't know how many half gallons there are, but she knows that their bathtub can hold 12 gallons of water. How many drops can she put into the bath for her sister?

Answer 1

Lana can put 24 drops of bubble bath for her sister

Explanation:

If package says to put in a drop of bubble bath for every half gallon of water in the bath tub.

If the bathtub can hold 12 gallons of water

There are 12÷1/2 gallon

=12×2/1

=24

It means there are 24 half gallons in the bathtub

If every half gallon of water requires a drop of the bubble bath

Then,

24 half gallons of water requires 24 drops of the bubble bath