A shipment of 15 tons of sugar is separated into containers of equal size. If the shipment fills 4 1/6 containers, how much sugar can one container hold?

Question

Idk how to do this can any of you people help me with this math question? If so then thank you!

Answer 1

We have two pieces of information: tons and containers.

We know that 15 tons fits into 4 1/6 containers. We want to know how many tons fits into 1 container.

Let x = number of tons in one container

4 1/6 = 25/6

we’re going to set up a proportion with tons over containers

Tons

Containers

15 =x

25/6 1

cross multiply : 15 = 25/6 x

clear the fraction by multiplying the denominator 6 to both sides:

90 = 25 x

Divide by 25:

x = 3.6 tons per container

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