Question

A tank holds 1000 L of water. If the capacity of a bucket is 12,500 ml, find the maximum number of buckets that can be filled by the water tank.

Answer 1

Hint: We need to divide the 1000 L of water in the tank equally between some buckets having a capacity of 12,500 ml. Convert ml to L and then divide the capacity of the tank by the capacity of the bucket.


Complete step-by-step answer:
The division is one of the four basic arithmetic operations.
The division is a method of distributing a group of things into equal parts.
The main goal of the division is to see how many result in each group when they are equally shared.
We are given a water tank that has a capacity of 1000 L. We need to find the number of buckets, each of capacity 12,500 ml, that the water in the water tank fills.
We now convert the capacity of the bucket into litres.
We know that 1000 ml is equal to 1L, then, we have:
\[12500ml = \dfrac{{12500}}{{1000}}L\]
12500 ml = 12.5 L
Now, we have the capacity of the bucket to be 12.5 L.
To find the number of buckets, we need to divide the capacity of the tank by the capacity of the bucket.
Number of buckets = \[\dfrac{{1000}}{{12.5}}\]
Number of buckets = 80 buckets
Hence, the answer is 80 buckets.

Note: Do not multiply 1000 with 12.5 to get the number of buckets, the division is the operation to split the water equally among the buckets.