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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 tools to form the correct answer on the provided number line.

Answer :

First, determine how much water is left in the cooler after Will fills his water bottle:

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

Next, since Will equally divides the remaining 128 ounces of water into 16 plastic cups, calculate the amount of water per cup by dividing the remaining water by the number of cups:

[tex]$$
x = \frac{128}{16} = 8 \text{ ounces}.
$$[/tex]

Thus, each cup contains [tex]$8$[/tex] ounces of water.

To represent this on a number line, you would draw a horizontal line (the number line) and mark the point [tex]$x = 8$[/tex] on that line. This point shows the number of ounces of water in each cup.

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