Question

Sally needs 6 gallons of water, but she only has a 2 quart pitcher. how many times does she need to fill it up to make 6 gallons?

Answer 1

2 quart pitcher times 2 trips to get 1 gallons of water. Multiply that by 6.

 12 trips in total

Answer 2

Answer:

12 times

Step-by-step explanation:

This is a unit conversion problem. In order to solve it we need the equivalence between this two measurement units. Which is:

$1Galllon=4Quarts$

This equivalence can be used as a conversion factor like this:

$\frac{4Quarts}{1Gallon}$

Applying it to the problem we can convert from gallons to quarts:

$6Gallons*\frac{x4Quarts}{1Gallon}=24Gallons$

Now we know that we have to fill up 24 gallons of water and as we will do it with a 2 quarts pitcher we will dive it by 2 to know how many times we need to fill up this pitcher:

$\frac{24}{2}=12$

She needs to fill the 2 quart pitcher 12 times to make 6 gallons