Devin volunteers at Big Pup Rescue. He is mixing up shampoo solution for the dog washing station. He needs 2 cups of shampoo concentrate for every 9 cups of water. Devin will use 36 cups of water.How much shampoo concentrate should Devin add to the water to make the shampoo solution?____ cups of shampoo concentrate
Q. Devin volunteers at Big Pup Rescue. He is mixing up shampoo solution for the dog washing station. He needs 2 cups of shampoo concentrate for every 9 cups of water. Devin will use 36 cups of water.How much shampoo concentrate should Devin add to the water to make the shampoo solution?____ cups of shampoo concentrate
Calculate sets of water: Devin needs to mix 2 cups of shampoo concentrate for every 9 cups of water. He's using 36 cups of water. First, let's find out how many sets of 9 cups are in 36 cups of water.Calculation: 36 divided by 9 equals 4.
Determine shampoo concentrate needed: Now, since each set of 9 cups of water requires 2 cups of shampoo concentrate, we multiply the number of sets by the amount of shampoo needed per set.Calculation: 4 sets times 2 cups of shampoo per set equals 8 cups of shampoo concentrate.
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