Question

Ms. Romero runs a house cleaning business. To save money, she bought a 1-gallon container of concentrated cleaner. She mixed the cleaner with 10 gallons of water. Then, she filled as many 1-pint spray bottles as she could. How many spray bottles did she fill?

Answer 1

i think the answer should be 6 bottles.

Answer 2

88 Spray bottles

Explanation:

You need to find how many spray bottles Ms. Romero filled. But first, you need to know how much cleaning solution she had in all.

Ms. Romero mixed 1 gallon of concentrated cleaner with 10 gallons of water. So, she had 11 gallons of cleaning solution in all.

Ms. Romero filled each spray bottle with 1 pint of cleaning solution. So, find how many pints are in 11 gallons. There are 2 pints in a quart, and there are 4 quarts in a gallon. That means there are 8 pints in a gallon, so multiply 11 gallons by 8.

11×8=88

Ms. Romero had 88 pints of cleaning solution. Since she filled each spray bottle with 1 pint, she filled 88 spray bottles.