Sanfrancisco has a recycling facility that accepts unused paint.
\Volunteers blend and mix the paint and give it away in
- gallon buckets.
Find the number of buckets of paint given away from the
gallons that are donated.
Let
be the number of buckets of paint given away.
(Orginal equation)
(Divide each side by
)
(Cancel common terms)
Therefore, the number of buckets given away from
gallons that are donated is
.
The number of buckets given away from
gallons that are donated is
.