Bathroom 4

Dolor puts 3 1/2 pails of water into a water container in the bathroom every day. Her daughter, Lei, uses 2 1/4 pails of water every day when taking a bath. If the water container had 5 5/8 pails of water at the start, how much water is left in it after 5 days?

Correct answer:

x =  11.875

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