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Carter drank 15.75 gallons of water in 4 weeks. he drank the same amount of water each day.a. estimate how many gallons he drank in one day.b. estimate how many gallons he drank in one week.c. about how many days altogether will it take him to drink 20 gallons?

The blue whale is the largest animal living on the earth. the average blue whale measures 100 feet long (30 meters) and weighs 300,000 pounds (136,000 kilograms). a whale’s head is 1⁄3 of the length of its body. a new baby whale is 1⁄4 the length of a grown whale. the average man is 1⁄17 the length of a blue whale, and 1⁄1,818 its weight. a human baby measures 1⁄4 of the length of an adult. calculate the following information: how long is a whale’s head? how long is a new baby whale? how tall is the average man? how much does the average man weigh? how tall is the average human baby?

The triangles are similar. what is the value of x? show your work.