How to find a quotient and how to write the answer as either a fraction or a mixed number.

A quotient is the result of a division. If you divide a number by another number, the result is the quotient. For example, if you divide 8 by 2, you get 4. 4 is the quotient of the division of 8 by 2. If you divide 3 by 7, the quotient is 3/7 since 3/7 is the result of the division of 3 by 7. If you do a division, and you end up with a fully reduced fraction whose numerator is greater than the denominator, then you can write the quotient as a mixed numeral. For example, what is 20 divided by 3? The quotient is the fraction 20/3. The numerator, 20, is greater than the denominator, 3, so you can write the fraction 20/3 as a mixed numeral. To do so, do long division. 20 divided by 3 is 6 with a remainder of 2. Then 20/2 = 6 2/3 as a mixed numeral.

step-by-step explanation:

12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 7 hours.

4: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 3 hours.

this means that from 4: 00 p.m to 7: 00 p.m. this represents 3/7 of what was lost from 12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m.

after knowing this, after doing 11,600 - 6,800 = 4,800

4,800 represents 3/7 of what was lost for 7 hours.

we then divide 4,800 by 3 which gets 1,600.

because we know that 1,600 represents 1/7 of how much water was lost, we just have to multiply by 7, which gets 11,200.   after adding 11,200 to how much water was left at 7: 00 p.m. which was 6,800. 11,200 + 6,800 = 18,000

this means that the pool originally had 18,000 gallons in the pool.

you can also check your work by doing 18,000 - 4(1600), which becomes           1800 - 6400 which gets you 11,600.