Nancy left a bin outside in her garden to collect rain water. She notices the 1/2 gallon fills 2/3 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.

3/4 gallon fils the complete bin.

Ok, so we know that 1/2 gallon of water, fills 2/3 of the bin.

We want to find the total amount of water that would fill the entire bin.

So we could write an equation like:

amount of water =  amount of the bin that it fills.

Then, using the above information, we have:

1/2 gal  = 2/3 of a bin

Now we want to get at 1 in the right side, this would mean "1 bin"

Then we multiply both sides by (3/2)

(3/2)*(1/2) gal = (3/2)*(2/3) of a bin

3/4 gal = 1 bin

From this, we can conclude that (3/4) gallons of water would fill the complete bin.

If you want to learn more about algebra, you can read:

x = 0,75 gallons      or       x  = 3/4   gallons      The volume of the bin

The volume of the bin is: In terms of a fraction

1  =  3/3      or any unitary fraction   5/5    7/7    9/9

We will take 3/3 since we have the information that 2/3 of the volume of the bin was filled with 2/3 of a gallon

If  2/3 of the volume of the bin was filled with 1/2 gallon then we make a rule of three according to:

If     0,5  gal.         fill    2/3 of the volume of the bin   then

          x   gal         fill     3/3  ( the volume of the bin)

solving

0,5 (gal) * 3/3    =   (2/3)*x       ( The equation)

0,5*3 = 2*x

x  =  (0,5*3)/2

x = 0,75 gallons      or       x  = 3/4   gallons

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