We can easily get the quarts per hour rate by dividing the number of quarts by the number of hours:

Now that we have the quarts per hour rate, we can easily address the question: the factory could make

quarts in 48 hours, with a daily rate of

quarts per day
The value for the missing term is -175.
First, calculate 18% of 23.
23 x 0.18 = 4.14
Then, add this value (the increase) to the original value of 23.
23 + 4.14 = 27.14
Rounding off, we get 27.