Question

Jabu is building a new flower bed and is using a bucket to carry soil from another part of the garden to the new bed. He knows his bucket has a capacity of 10 litres. If he has 300 litres of soil, and for each trip, he fills the bucket to the top, how many trips will Jabu have to make with the bucket?
(a). 10
(b). 20
(c). 30
(d). 40

Answer 1

Hint: We need to divide the total capacity that is, 300 litres, by the bucket capacity, that is 10 litres, to find the total trips Jabu have to make with 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 another part of the garden that has a soil capacity of 300 litres. Jabu has a bucket that has a capacity of 10 litres. To find the number of trips, he has to make, we need to divide 300 litres by 10 litres as follows:
Total number of trips = \[\dfrac{{300litres}}{{10litres}}\]
Total number of trips = \[30\]
Hence, Jabu has to make 30 trips with the bucket.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

Note: Do not multiply the quantities given, we need to divide 300 litres among each trip to find the total number of trips. Hence, use division to calculate the total number of trips.