Answer to Question #337887 in Algebra for Lolo

Question

June at 60 gallons of punch for a party June carries the punch in two different full coolers the bigger cooler is five times as large as the smaller cooler how many gallons can each cooler hold

Answer 1

Let the smaller cooler holds x gallons, then the larger cooler holds 5x gallons,

$x+5x=60,\\ 6x=60,\\ x=10\text{ gallons,}\\ 5x=50\text{ gallons.}$