Tyler used 1 1/4 gallons of paint to paint 5/7 of a fence. how many gallons will it take to paint the whole fence? explain or show your reasoning.

For this case we have missing of fence to be painted.

To paint of fence we used:

gallons of paint. So, we make a rule of three:

Where the variable "x" represents the gallons of paint needed to paint the missing fence

Thus, 0.5 gallons of paint is missing for the missing fence.

Answer

0.5 gallons

345

step-by-step explanation:

75

step-by-step explanation:

you do x-29=46 (the number of cantaloupes sold)

in order to find x, you have to find what minus 29 equals 46, meaning you'd have to add 29 to 46.

29+46=75

if you replace x with 75, the equation looks like:

75-29=46

x=75