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prealgebra senior

Problem

Alicia had two containers. The first was full of water and the second was empty. She poured all the water from the first container into the second container, at which point the second container was full of water. What is the ratio of the volume of the first container to the volume of the second container?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Solution
Let the first jar's volume be and the second's be . It is given that . We find that We already know that this is the ratio of the smaller to the larger volume because it is less than
Final answer
D