A restaurant's small salt shaker contains 0.6 ounces of salt. It's large shaker holds twice as much. The shakers are filled from A container that has 18.6 ounces of salt. If 8 large shakers are filled, how many small shakers can be filled with the remaining salt?

A large container can hold 1.2 ounces of salt, since it says double the amount of the small, which is 0.6 ounces.
8 large salt shakers can hold (1.2 • 8) ounces of salt.
1.2 • 8 = 9.6
If only 9.6 out of the 18.6 ounces are used, there is (18.6 - 9.6) ounces left.
18.6 - 9.6 = 9
Now just divide 9 by 0.6 to find how many small containers can be filled.
9 / 0.6 = 15
The answer is 15 small shakers can be filled with the remaining salt.

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tifanihayyu tifanihayyu · Answer 2 · 2019-10-08T14:24:31+02:00

If 8 large shakers are filled, there are 15 small shakers that can be filled with the remaining salt

Further explanation

The salt shakers were invented in 1858 by John Mason, the man who invented the screw-top Mason jar. The number of holes in salt and pepper shakers varies by culture, health and taste. In the US, excessive salt is considered bad, so the salt shaker is the one with the fewer holes, but in parts of Europe it's the other way around. The ounce of salt is a unit of mass, weight, or volume used in most British derived customary systems of measurement.

Salt shakers consists of 8 large (9.6 oz) and ... small (9 oz), total 9.6 oz + 9 oz = 18.6 oz.

[tex]Large = 0.6*2 = 1.2 oz each[/tex]

[tex]1.2*8 = 9.6 large total[/tex]

[tex]18.6 - 9.6 = 9.0[/tex]

Small containers:

[tex]\frac{9 oz}{0.6 oz} = \frac{9*10}{0.6*10} = \frac{90}{6} = 15[/tex]

There will be 15 small salt shakers filled with salt.

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Grade: 5

Subject: Math

Chapter: restaurant's small salt shaker

Keywords: large shakers, restaurant, shaker, salt, small