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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. Use the drawing tool(s) to form the correct answer on the provided number line.

Answer :

Sure! Let's go through the steps to solve the problem and find out how many ounces of water Will could have put in each cup:

1. Initial Amount of Water:
- Will starts with a cooler that has 144 ounces of water.

2. Water Used for Water Bottle:
- Will uses 16 ounces from the cooler to fill his water bottle.
- So, we subtract 16 ounces from the initial 144 ounces.

3. Remaining Water:
- After the water bottle is filled, there are:
[tex]\[
144 \text{ ounces} - 16 \text{ ounces} = 128 \text{ ounces}
\][/tex]
- Therefore, 128 ounces of water are left in the cooler.

4. Distributing Water into Cups:
- Will has 16 plastic cups for his teammates.
- We need to find out how much water each cup gets if the 128 ounces are distributed equally among the 16 cups.

5. Water Per Cup:
- To find the amount of water per cup, we divide the remaining water by the number of cups:
[tex]\[
\frac{128 \text{ ounces}}{16 \text{ cups}} = 8 \text{ ounces per cup}
\][/tex]

6. Conclusion:
- Each cup could have 8 ounces of water.

Now, if you need to graph this on a number line, simply plot 8 on the number line to represent the amount of water in each cup. Each tick mark on your number line can represent 1 ounce to clearly show the amount is 8 ounces.