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Earl needs to fill juice cups for his little brother's birthday party. There are 25 juice cups and each juice cup holds 12 fluid ounces. The juice comes in 1-gallon bottles. How many 1-gallon bottles of juice will Earl need to purchase?

A) 1 bottle
B) 2bottles
C) 3bottles
D)4bottles

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Answer:

c 3

Explanation:

User Davood
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Let's first find out how many ounces of juice are needed. 25 * 12 = 300

300 fluid ounces of juice are needed.
There are 128 fluid ounces in a gallon. So to find out how many gallons we will need, we will divide: 300/128 = 2.34375

So you'll need at least 3 bottles of juice.
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