A gardener uses 1/3 of a liter of water to water 2/7 of a garden. Watering the entire garden at this rate will require ____ liters of water.
Mathematics · High School · Wed Jan 13 2021
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Given the statement:
A gardener uses 1/3 of a liter of water to water 2/7 of a garden.
Determine how many liters of water is needed to water the entire garden.
Solution:
In order to find the amount of water needed to water the garden we simply needed to divide 2/7 by ⅓, hence it must be taken to note that in dividing a value with a fraction, we must instead take the reciprocal of that fraction, and then multiply it with the value. In our case, the reciprocal of ⅓ is 3, thus we multiply 3 to 2/7
= 2/7 / ⅓
= (2/7)(3)
= 6/7
Final answer:
= 6/7 liters of water