Tyler used 1 1/4 gallons of paint to paint 5/7 of a fence. how many gallons will it take to paint the whole fence? explain or show your reasoning.

For this case we have missing of fence to be painted.

To paint of fence we used:

gallons of paint. So, we make a rule of three:

Where the variable "x" represents the gallons of paint needed to paint the missing fence

Thus, 0.5 gallons of paint is missing for the missing fence.

Answer

0.5 gallons

hi,

you half the rectangle that you ae asking about so then you would see the scale factor of 1/2 the one u have selected, the one on top is half.

hope this !