Question

Lynn has a watering can that holds 32 cups of water,and she fills it a quarter full.Then she waters 17 plants so that each plant gets the same amount of water.How many cups of water will each plant get?

Answer 1

We have been given that Lynn has a watering can that holds 32 cups of water,and she fills it a quarter full.

It means the watering can has $32\times \frac{1}{4}= 8 \text{ cups of water}$

Now, she waters 17 plants and each plant gets the same amount of water. Let us suppose that each plant gets x cups of water.

Thus, we have

$17x=8$

Divide both sides by 17, we get

$x=\frac{8}{17} \\ \\ x=0.47059$

Therefore, each plant gets 0.47059 cups of water.