word Problem

Question

After a space ship crash lands in the New Mexican desert, a scientist arriving to the crash site finds 11 gallons of a strange magnetic liquid and measures its weight to be 21 pounds. Her supervisor asked her for the weight of just 1 gallon of the liquid, adding, we cant carry everything back to the base- we only have 1 jeep. So what's the weight of 1 gallon of the strange magnetic liquid, in pounds and to 2 decimal places?

Answer 1

You want to know the number of pounds per gallon (pounds/gallon), so divide the pounds by the gallons:

 

(21 pounds)/(11 gallons) = __________  pounds/gallon

 

Remember to rounds your answer to two decimal places.