Question

4) Celeste drinks at most 10 cups of water each day. So far, she drank 1.5 cups of water. She will drink the rest of her water for the day from a water bottle that holds 2 cups of water. What is the maximum number of bottles worth of water Celeste should drink so that she drinks at most 10 cups of water?​

Answer 1

Celeste can drink a maximum of 4 full 2-cup water bottles for the rest of the day after already having consumed 1.5 cups, to ensure she does not exceed her daily limit of 10 cups of water.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question is about calculating the maximum number of water bottles Celeste can drink given she has already consumed 1.5 cups of water and her daily limit is 10 cups.

Since each water bottle holds 2 cups, we can find the remaining amount she can drink by subtracting the 1.5 cups she has already consumed from the total of 10 cups she can have in a day, which gives us 8.5 cups.

To find out how many 2-cup bottles this equates to, we divide 8.5 cups by 2 cups per bottle.

8.5 cups ÷ 2 cups per bottle = 4.25 bottles

However, since Celeste can't drink a fraction of a bottle, we need to round down to the nearest whole number.

Therefore, Celeste can drink a maximum of 4 full bottles of water for the rest of the day to stay within her limit of 10 cups of water.