john eats a bowl of cereal for 3 of his 4 meals each day. He finishes two gallons of milk in eight days . How much milk does john use for one bowl of cereal?
He has 24 meals that use milk in 8 days. If he finished 2 gallons in 24 sittings, he uses 2/24 of a gallon a day which simplifies to 1/12 gallon a day.