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(NEED HELP ASAP!!!!!!!!!) James left a bin outside in his garden to collect rainwater. He notices that 1 over 4 gallon of water fills 2 over 3 of the bin. Write and solve an equation to find the amount of water that will fill the entire bin. Show your work. Explain your answer in words.

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The answer is 3/10.

The amount of water that will fill the entire bin will be 0.375 gallons of water.

What are ratios and proportions?

A ratio is an ordered set of integers a and b expressed as a/b, with b never equaling 0. A proportional is a mathematical expression in which two things are equal.

James left a bin outside in his garden to collect rainwater.

He notices that 1 over 4 gallons of water fills 2 over 3 of the bin.

Then the amount of water that will fill the entire bin will be

Let x be the amount of water in gallons. Then we have

2 / 3 bin = 1 / 4 gallons water

     1 bin = 3 / 2 x 1 / 4 gallons water

     1 bin = 0.375 gallons water

More about the ratio and the proportion link is given below.

https://brainly.com/question/14335762

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