Question

Jameson Middle school gives bottles of water to teachers and students who are going on a field trip. The school orders 500 bottles of water. They plan to give 35 bottles of water to teachers. They ordered at least 2 bottles of water for each student, How many students could be going on the field trip? Show your work.

Answer 1

Answer: 232 students can go on the field trip

Explanation:

The school ordered 500 bottles of water. We know that 35 of those bottles of water will be given to the teachers and the rest of the 500 bottles of water will be given to the students.

We also know that the school ordered at least 2 bottles of water for each student. Therefore, we can set up an equation to solve for the number of students going on the field trip:

500 bottles of water - 35 bottles of water = 465 bottles of water

465 bottles of water ÷ 2 bottles of water = 232.5 students

Since we cannot have half of a student, we can determine that the number of students going on the field trip is 232.