2019 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 1
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?
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 smaller to larger volume because it is less than
--mguempel
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