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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.

1. Start with the total amount of water:
Will brought a cooler with 144 ounces of water to the soccer practice.

2. Subtract the water used to fill the water bottle:
Will used 16 ounces to fill his water bottle. After filling the bottle, the amount of water left in the cooler is:
[tex]\(144 - 16 = 128\)[/tex] ounces.

3. Divide the remaining water among the cups:
Will then divides this remaining water equally into 16 plastic cups. To find out how much water goes into each cup, we divide the remaining water by the number of cups:
[tex]\(128 \div 16 = 8\)[/tex] ounces per cup.

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

To graph this, you can draw a simple bar chart or a line plot on a coordinate plane. On the x-axis would be the number of cups (from 1 to 16), and on the y-axis would be the amount of water in ounces. Each point on the graph would be at (cup number, 8), forming a horizontal line because each cup contains the same 8 ounces of water.