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.

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

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

2. Account for the water used to fill his water bottle:
Will used 16 ounces to fill his water bottle. To find out how much water is left in the cooler, subtract the 16 ounces from the original 144 ounces:

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

3. Determine how much water goes into each of the cups:
Will uses the remaining 128 ounces of water to fill 16 cups. To find out how many ounces of water Will puts into each cup, divide the remaining ounces by the number of cups:

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

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

4. Graph the solution on a number line:
You'd draw a number line and place a point at 8 to represent the 8 ounces of water per cup.

And there you have it! Will can put 8 ounces of water in each cup for his teammates. Let me know if you need help with anything else!