During a catered lunch, an average of 4 cups of tea are poured per minute. The lunch will last 2 hours. How many gallons of tea should the cateree bring if there are 16 cups in one gallon?

30 gallons (that’s a lot of tea!)

Step-by-step explanation:

Hi there!

we know that there are 60 minutes in an hour, 120 in 2 hours.

If 4 cups are poured every minute, we multiply 4 by the number of minutes in 2 hours, 120.

now we have 480 cups. However, they asked for gallons. They already give how many cups are in a gallon, 16, so all we have to do is divide 480 by 16 to find the amount of gallons needed.

480/16 = 30 gallons!

I hope this helped!