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A store has 39 qt of milk some in pint cartons and some in quart cartons. There are six times as many quart cartons as pint cartons. How many quart cartons are there?

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A store has 39 qt of milk some in pint cartons and some in quart cartons. There are six times as many quart cartons as pint cartons. How many quart cartons are there?

anonymous · Answer

P is pint cartons, Q is quart cartons.
Total milk M is the amount of milk in both types of cartons, and it happens to be equal to 39 total quarts.

anonymous · Answer

But you also should know something about pints and quarts, specifically that a quart is equal to 2 pints

anonymous · Answer

oh, wait, I think I'm messing this up

anonymous · Answer

I misread the question

anonymous · Answer

number of quart cartons is 6 times the number of pint cartons
So you could say 6P is the number of quart cartons

anonymous · Answer

uh oh... we're about to get rebooted :(