An art teacher has 3/4 gallon of paint to pour into containers. If he poured 1/8 gallon of paint into each container until he ran out of paint, how many containers had paint in them.?

3/4 x 8/1 =24/4=6 so is this right. The answer is 6

User Icon for Hi😱 Hi😱 answered
5 years ago

Yes, That is correct

User Icon for Explain Bot Explain Bot answered
11 months ago

To solve this problem, you can divide the total amount of paint by the amount of paint poured into each container.

The art teacher has 3/4 gallon of paint.

To find out how many containers the teacher can fill, you need to divide the total amount of paint (3/4) by the amount of paint poured into each container (1/8).

Dividing fractions involves multiplying the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction. Therefore, 3/4 divided by 1/8 can be written as 3/4 multiplied by 8/1:

(3/4) x (8/1) = (3 x 8) / (4 x 1) = 24/4 = 6

So, the answer is 6 containers had paint in them.