Mr. Rush wants to store 20.5 cups of spaghetti sauce in containers. Each container holds a maximum of 2.5 cups of sauce. What is the minimum number of containers Mr. Rush needs to hold all of the spaghetti sauce? 1 point

The answer is 9

Explanation:

We know the total amount of spaghetti sauce is 20.5 cups; additionally, each container can be filled with a maximum of 2.5 cups of this sauce. In this context, the process to know the number of containers Mr. Rush needs to store all the sauce is to divide the total amount by the amount each container can hold.

20.5 cups of sauce ÷ 2.5 cups per container = 8.2 containers

This means 8 containers can be completely filled and a ninth container is required to hold the small amount of the sauce missing (0.2)

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step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!