how many days will it take to paint 6 houses?

Question

Alonso runs a company called speedy house painters. His workers can paint 3/4 of a house in one day.

Answer 1

Liana, let's say they do 2 houses a day.  How many days would it take to do 6?  3, right, because 6 ÷ 2 = 3.

 

Instead, we have 6 ÷ 3/4.  Remember how to do that?  We flip the 2nd fraction and multiply.

 

6/1 x 4/3 = 24/3 = 8.

 

It will take 8 days to paint 6 houses.

 

Hope this helps!