A bucket holds 5 gallons and 3 quarts. What is the bucket's capacity in quarts?

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Answer 1 · 2018-08-05T05:55:14

$23$ $23$ quarts.

$1$ $1$ gallon equals $4$ $4$ US quarts, so

$5 gallons \times \frac{4 quarts}{1 gallon} = 20 quarts$ $"5 gallons" xx "4 quarts"/"1 gallon" = "20 quarts"$

Did you know you can cancel out units of measurements in the same way you do numbers. So we have:

$5cancel("gallons")xx(4" quarts")/(1 cancel("gallons")) = (5xx4color(white)(".")"quarts")/1 = 20" quarts"$

So

$"20 quarts" \ + \ "3 quarts" = "23 quarts"$