Collin is using a punch bowl that holds 8 gallons of punch. How much more punch could Collin make with the extra space in the bowl?

Question

There is a list of ingredients** amount(in gallons)

1. Pink lemonade / 1 1/2
2. Seltzer water / 2 3/4
3. fruit juice / 7/8

The answer we got when adding all of it up like the first question asked we got 5 1/8 of punch but cannot move on any further

Answer 1

So the total amount of space used in the bowl can be calculated by adding the ingredients together

First we need to put them into a neutral denominator, (1/8th)

So we have 12/8 gallons of pink lemonade

and 22/8 gallons of seltzer water

and 7/8 gallons of fruit juice

if we add all these up we get 41/8 which is equal to 5 and 1/8 gallons.

With the extra space in the bowl of 8 gallons the room left that doesn't have punch in it is equal to the 8 gallons minus the 5 and 1/8th gallons

This would be 2 and 7/8 gallons left in the punch bowl which Im assuming is the amount of extra punch he can make!

Hope this helps

Hope

Answer 2

Let's identify each part of the problem and what the problem is asking: 8 gallons is how much punch the bowl can hold. 5 1/8 gallons is how much of the bowl is filled up. We want to find out "how much space is left/left over." That last phrase in this context means "subtraction"; we need to subtract the part (5 1/8) from the whole (8): 8 - 5 1/8.

We need to have a shared denominator (8) and convert these into improper fractions:

1. 8 = 64/8; 5 1/8 = 41/8
2. Now subtract the two fractions: 64/8 - 41/8 = 23/8.
3. Finally, you want to convert 23/8 into a mixed number: 2 7/8.

Answer 3

Collin made 5 1/8 gallons.

The bowl holds 8 gallons.

8 - (5 1/8) = ?