You are going to mix a gallon bucket of window cleaner. The instructions direct you to mix 1 part cleaner to 3 parts water. How much cleaning solution will you need to use?

Answer 1

Diana, yes, we all find the wording confusing. If we imagine that they really meant

You are going to mix a gallon bucket of window cleaner. The instructions direct you to mix 1 part concentrate to 3 parts water. How much concentrate will you need to use?

it would be clear that the answer is 1/(1+3) gallons, which is how much in English measure? Do you know your fractions of a gallon?

Answer 2

Use 1 part cleaner and 3 parts water. As for the job; I don't know what to tell you. Just remember 1:3.

Answer 3

Since you don't have "cleaning solution" as an ingredient, and the problem says you want a gallon of "cleaner" and you have only "cleaner" and "water" to start with, unless you are going mix the ""cleaning solution" as another step before putting it into the one gallon bucket, in which case, the answer is one gallon, it seems that there is no clear answer to this problem.

A solution is a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances,