Question

Jane works at The Bottling Company. She needs to put 8,500 bottles of water into cases.

So far she has put 2,136 in cases. How many cases can Jane fill with the remaining bottles?
How many bottles will be left? Enter your answers in the boxes.

The Bottling Company
Beverage
Bottles per Case
Juice
12
Soda
20
Water
24
Jane can fill
cases and will have
bottles left.

Answer 1

a) 265 case

b) 4 bottles

Explanation:

The number of bottles remaining = total number of bottles - total number of bottles placed in cases

The number of bottles remaining = 8500 - 2136

The number of bottles remaining = 6364 bottles

From the table, we can see that water is filled at 24 bottles per case. Let x be the number of cases, hence:

24 bottles per case * x case = 6364 bottles

24x = 6364

x = 6364

x = 265.16

Therefore the number of cases filled = 265.

265 cases can contain 6360 bottles

b) number of bottles remaining = 6364 bottles - (24 * 265 case) = 4 bottles