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Algebra Pain
From: Victor
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2003 at 10:03:31
If 3 liters of water are added to the bucket when half full of water, the amount of water in the bucket will increase by 1/3rd. ( notice not total capacity)
Her bucket contains how many liters of water?
The part I don't understand is why they multiply
by 4/3 to ( 1/2 of capacity) - 1/2 c =3
4/3 is derived from original amount of water which is
X + 1/3 ( increase in water)= to get 4/3.
The amount of water will be 4/3rds of the new capacity, right?
But the amount of water is not known, shouldn't it be 4/3rd X. It's tough to see how you go from half full of water to 4/3rds of capacity
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