Question

A certain species of fish require 1.5 cubic feet of water per fish to maintain a healthy environment. What is the maximum number of fish you could put in a tank measuring 6 feet by 2 feet by 3 feet?

Answer 1

`23` fish

Explanation:

First, we want to find how much the tank can hold in cubic feet, which would be given by `l*w*h`

`l*w*h=6` feet`*2` feet`*3` feet`=36` cubic feet

Now we can solve for how many fish can be in the tank with the expression

Tank space / space for one fish = # of fish

`35` cubic feet`/1.5` cubic feet= `23 1/3` fish

Since you cannot have `1/3` of a fish, you round down to `23` fish since `24` fish would not fit.