Question

Ice-Cream Palace needed 6 gallons of milk today to make their daily special. They had 6 1⁄2 quarts of skim milk and 1 pint of whole milk. How many pints of milk did they still need to buy?

Answer 1

First, we should convert all of the measurements into one unit.

Let's convert everything into fluid ounces since it's the smallest unit in the American Liquid Measurement system.

They had 6 1/2 quarts of skim milk.

6 1/2 quarts=208 fluid ounces.  

They had 1 pint of whole milk, which is equal to 16 fluid ounces.

Next, we add both numbers 208, and 16, together.

208+16=224.

So far Ice-Cream Palace has 224 fluid ounces of milk.

Next, we'll convert 6 gallons into fluid ounces.

6 gallons=768 fluid ounces.

Next, we subtract 224 from 768.

768-224=544.

That means they need to buy 544 ounces of milk.

All we have to do now is convert 544 into pints.

544 ounces= 34 pints.

They still need to buy 34 pints of milk.

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Answer 2

Okay, so 2 cups is a pint, two pints is a quart and four quarts is a gallon.

We need to know how many more pints we need to get to 6 gallons, so I'm going to convert it all to pints, 6 1/2 quarts is 13 pints.


All together we have 14 pints, and you need 8 pints for a gallon, so in 6 gallons we need 48. 48-14=34. 

We need 34 more pints of milk.