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And here's your shmoop du jour...

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Marlene needs to fill a 4-gallon bucket with water from a drinking fountain.

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Apparently, she started a fire that needs to be put out.

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Marlene only has a jar that holds 1.5 cups.

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How many trips will she need to make to the fountain?

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And here are the potential answers...

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Let's break down what the question is asking.

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It's asking us to find the number of trips Marlene needs to make...

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...but to find that number, we have to know how many cups are in a gallon.

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Listen up.

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There are four cups to a quart and four quarts to a gallon.

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That makes 16 cups in a gallon

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and 64 cups in 4 gallons. If Marlene's teensy tiny jar can hold 1.5

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cups, and she needs to get 4 gallons worth of water, or 64 cups,

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how many trips will she need to make?

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We divide 64 by 1.5, and we get 42.6666666...and so on.

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Ok, so 42.66 of Marlene's jars will carry 64 cups of water.

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If Marlene makes 42 trips, then she'll only have 63 cups of water.

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To make sure she has those 64 cups, she has to round up... and make 43 trip.

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Our answer is E.

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