Milk is poured into two cans. If you pour 1.5 liters of milk from the first can into the second

Milk is poured into two cans. If you pour 1.5 liters of milk from the first can into the second, then the second will be 2.5 liters less than the first. How much milk is in the second can, if the first has 12 liters?

The required unidentified initial quantity of liters of milk in the second can is denoted by the conditional variable “Y”.

Based on the conditions of this problem, we compose the following equation: (12 – 1.5) – (Y + 1.5) = 2.5.

As a result of solving the existing equation, we will have the following 10.5 – Y – 1.5 = 2.5 or Y = 10.5 – 1.5 – 2.5 = 10.5 – 4 = 6.5 liters of milk.

Answer: Initially, the second can contained 6.5 liters of milk.