Marie bought One-half gallon of milk, which she finished after 6 days. If she drank the same amount of milk each day, how many gallons a day did she drink?

Question

StartFraction 1 Over 12 EndFraction of a gallon
One-third of a gallon
3 gallons
12 gallons

Answer 1

To find out how many gallons of milk Marie drank each day, we can divide the total amount of milk by the number of days it lasted.

Marie bought \( \frac{1}{2} \) gallon of milk and finished it in 6 days. To find out how much she drank each day, we perform the following calculation:

\[ \text{Amount of milk per day} = \frac{\text{Total milk}}{\text{Number of days}} = \frac{1/2}{6} \]

To divide by 6, we can multiply \( \frac{1}{2} \) by the reciprocal of 6, which is \( \frac{1}{6} \):

\[ \frac{1/2}{6} = \frac{1}{2} \times \frac{1}{6} = \frac{1}{12} \]

Therefore, Marie drank \( \frac{1}{12} \) of a gallon of milk each day.

So the answer is: StartFraction 1 Over 12 EndFraction of a gallon.