Question

help please

Answer 1

The number of bucket of paint n needed to paint a fence varies directions with the total area a of the fence and inversely with amount of paint p in a bucket. It takes three 1-gallon buckets of paint to paint 72 square feet of fence. How many 1-gallon buckets will be needed to paint 90 square feet of fence.

Answer 2

First, how many 1-gallon buckets are needed for 72 sq ft?

Answer 3

Okay, great!

Answer 4

Take your 3 gallons and divide them into 72.

Answer 5

24

Answer 6

Great! Now divide 90 by 24

Answer 7

3.75

Answer 8

Cool, so how many 1-gallon buckets do you need to paint the 90 sq ft of fence?

Answer 9

3.75 gallons

Answer 10

Yep! However, the question is asking how many buckets you need. This is the tricky part. You need to round up to 4!

Answer 11

ok thanks

Answer 12

No prob, glad I could help!

Answer 13

can you help me with 2 more