Question

Daniel the salesman has 3,000 bottles of extra strong fertilizer to sell. Each of the bottles cost $40 each. He sells 105 to Chuck The Farmer,706 to Maria the Gardener, 300 to Nate the Tester,200 to Ivy the Girl Scout and 900 to Mario the Chef. How much money did he make? How many bottles did he sell? How many bottles does he have left over?

Answer 1

you add all sales numbers to get 2,211. then you multiply that by 40 because that’s the amount of each. which is 88,440, that’s how much money he made. then you subtract 2,211 and 3,000 to get 789 which is how many bottles are left over.