Question

The number of buckets of paint n needed to paint a fence varies directly with the total area of the fence and inversely with the amount of paint p in a bucket. It takes three 1-gallon buckets of paint to paint 72 square feet of fence. How many 1-gallon buckets will be needed to paint 90 square feet of fence?

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Answer 1

It takes three 1-gallon buckets to paint 72sqft, if you simplify or find the unit rate, you can know that you can paint 24sqft with one 1-gallon bucket of paint. Since you need to paint 90 sqft, you can’t use three buckets because it only covers 72sqft, but if you use 4 buckets, it will cover 96sqft.

THE ANSWER IS 4 1-GALLON BUCKETS OF PAINT