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The cafeteria uses 10 gallons of milk in 3 days. How many days does it take to use 1 gallon of milk?

User Arwed Mett
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Answer: 0.3 days

Explanation:

Let’s set up this equation, where x is the number of days.


(10)/(3)=
(1)/(x)

Using cross-product multiplication, you get:

10x = 3


(10x)/(10)=
(3)/(10)

So, x = 0.3, meaning it took 0.3 (or 1/3) days to use up one gallon of milk

Hope this helps! :)

User Shishir Kumar
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Answer:

the cafeteria uses 3.33 gallons a day 3 divided by 10 is 3.33

Explanation:

User Stephanmg
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