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Will brought a 144-ounce cooler filled with water to soccer practice. He used 16 ounces from the cooler to fill his water bottle. He then took out 16 plastic cups for his teammates and put the same amount of water in each cup.

Find and graph the number of ounces of water, [tex]x[/tex], that Will could have put in each cup.

Answer :

Sure! Let's solve the problem step-by-step to find out how many ounces of water Will could have put in each cup.

1. Start with the initial amount of water:
Will has a cooler with 144 ounces of water.

2. Subtract the water he used for his water bottle:
Will filled his water bottle with 16 ounces of water. So, we need to subtract this from the total amount of water in the cooler.

[tex]\[
144 \text{ ounces} - 16 \text{ ounces} = 128 \text{ ounces}
\][/tex]

Now, there are 128 ounces of water remaining in the cooler.

3. Divide the remaining water among the plastic cups:
Will took out 16 plastic cups to share the remaining water equally. To find out how many ounces each cup will get, we divide the remaining ounces by the number of cups.

[tex]\[
\frac{128 \text{ ounces}}{16 \text{ cups}} = 8 \text{ ounces per cup}
\][/tex]

So, Will could have put 8 ounces of water in each cup.

4. Graph the result:
To graph this on a number line, you would place a point at 8, representing the number of ounces that each cup contains. This shows that each of the 16 cups would get 8 ounces of water equally.