Question

Suppose you have $344. If you decide to spend it all on ice cream, you can buy 80 pints. If the price of a glass of lemonade is 2.5 times less than the price of ice cream, how much lemonade can you buy if you decide to spend all your money on it? if necessary, round all intermediate calculations to two decimal places and your final answer to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

Answer: 200 glasses of lemonade

Step-by-step:

First, let’s find how much one pint of ice cream is. In order to do this, divide 344 by 80.
344/80=4.3

This means one pint of ice cream is $4.30. A glass of lemonade is 2.5 times less than $4.30. In order to find this, you divide 4.30 by 2.5
4.30/2.5=1.72

This means, one glass of lemonade is equal to $1.72. Now, you have a total of $344 and you want to spend it all on the lemonade. You divide 344 by 1.72.
344/1.72=200

This concludes that with the $344, you can buy 200 glasses of lemonade.