A 17.5 gallon tank is 1/3 full. How many more gallons of water does it take to fill the tank?
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Answer: 90 visitors per hour
Explanation: "Per hour" means in 1 hour, so we can rewrite the given statement using fractions as <em>450 visitors/5 hours = __visitors/1 hour</em>.
To find out what goes in the bank, notice that we
have a 1 in the denominator of our second fraction.
So we want to find a fraction that is equivalent
to 450/5 that has a 1 in the denominator.
If we divide the numerator and denominator of 450/5 by 5,
we get the equivalent fraction 90/1 or <em>90 visitors/1 hour</em>.
So now we have <em>90 visitors/1 hour = __visitors/1 hour</em>.
So a 90 must go in the blank.
This means that the museum sees 90 visitors per hour.
