A painter uses 15 gallons of interior paint to cover 300 square yards of wall and ceiling space. On a different job, he uses 8 gallons to cover 160 square yards. No paint is left over on either job. How many gallons of paint are needed to cover 1 square yard?

.05

Step-by-step explanation:

300/15

20 sqr yrds per gal

1/20

1/20 or .05 Gal per sqr yrd

answer: the answer is one of

step-by-step explanation:   we are given to write a proper fraction where the whole is divided into an even number of equal parts less than ten, and an odd number of those parts exist.

an even number less than 10 may be one of 2, 4, 6 or 8. so, the whole may be one of these four evens.

now, an odd number of these parts must exist, so the numerator must be an odd number, one of 1, 3, 5 or 7. it cannot be 9 because then the fraction will become improper.

thus, our fraction may be one of the following