QuestionKenny jars 12 liters in 6 days. How many days for 20 liters? Use unit rates to find the answer.
Studdy Solution
STEP 1
Assumptions1. Kenny jarred12 liters of jam in6 days.
. The rate at which Kenny jars jam is constant.
3. Kenny wants to jar20 liters of jam in total.
4. We need to find out how many days Kenny needs to spend making jam to achieve this.
STEP 2
First, we need to find the unit rate of how much jam Kenny jars in one day. We can do this by dividing the total amount of jam jarred by the total number of days.
STEP 3
Now, plug in the given values for the total amount of jam and the total number of days to calculate the unit rate.
STEP 4
Calculate the unit rate.
STEP 5
Now that we have the unit rate, we can find out how many days Kenny needs to spend making jam to jar20 liters. We can do this by dividing the total amount of jam Kenny wants to jar by the unit rate.
STEP 6
Plug in the values for the total amount of jam and the unit rate to calculate the total number of days.
STEP 7
Calculate the total number of days.
Kenny needs to spend10 days making jam to jar20 liters of jam.
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