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)
