Question

joe needs to transfer 28 quarts of oil into one gallon containers joe calculated that he needs 112 container's but he made a mistake in his calculations identify and correct his error

Answer 1

The answer to your question is given below.

Explanation:

To know the mistake that Joe made and the possible correction, we shall convert 28 quart to gallon.

This is illustrated below:

Recall:

4 quart = 1 gallon

Therefore,

28 quart = 28 quart × 1 gallon / 4 quart

28 quart = 7 gallon

Therefore, 28 quarts is equivalent to 7 gallons.

Hence, Joe made a mistake in his calculations by multiplying 28 quarts by 4 instead of dividing 28 quart by 4.