Question

There are about 1,400,000 drops in 25 gallons of liquid. What percent of a gallon is a single drop?

Answer 1

1,400,000 drops : 25 gallons


1,400,000/25 drops : 25/25 gallons


56,000 drops : 1 gallons

Answer 2

So there are 56,000 drops in 1 gallon of liquid

Answer 3

Do you see how to get the answer from here?

Answer 4

How do you find the percentage of it?

Answer 5

divide both sides by 56,000 to get this

56,000 drops : 1 gallons

56,000/56,000 drops : 1/56,000 gallons

1 drop = 0.00001785714286 gallons

Answer 6

so one drop is approximately 0.00001785714286 gallons

Answer 7

convert that to a percentage

Answer 8

What is the percent? about 0.18%? about 0.0018%?about 0.018%? about 1.8%?

Answer 9

multiply 0.00001785714286 by 100 or move the decimal over 2 spots to get

0.001785714286 %

Then round to 4 places to get

0.0018 %

Answer 10

Thank You.

Answer 11

np

Answer 12

During a game, high school students sell snacks. They sell cold sandwiches for $2.50, hot dogs for $1.50, and hamburgers for $2. By the end of the day, the students have collected $1060.50 and sold 562 items. Casey estimates that the students sold twice as many hot dogs as cold sandwiches. If his estimate is correct, how many of each item did they sell? Solve by using row reduction.