Sara left a bin outside in her garden to collect rainwater. she notices that 1 over 8 gallon of water fills 2 over 3 of the bin. write and solve an equation to find the amount of water that will fill the entire bin. show your work. explain your answer in words.

So,

One-eighth gallon of water will fill two-thirds of the bin.

We want the sentence: "x gallons of water will fill three-thirds of the bin."

What we do is multiply two-thirds by its reciprocal (three-halves) and make sure we do it on both sides.





So your equation would look like this: