Question

A `16`-ounce bottle of orange juice contains `200` milligrams of vitamin C, which is `250\%` of the daily recommended amount (for adults).

On the previous screen, you said the daily recommended amount of vitamin C is `80` milligrams.



Yosef drank `4` ounces of orange juice.



What percent of the daily recommended amount of vitamin C is this?

Answer 1

Since a 16-ounce bottle of orange juice contains 200 milligrams of vitamin C, we can find the amount of vitamin C in 4 ounces by using a proportion:

16 ounces 200 milligrams

4 ounces x milligrams

Solving for x, we have:

x = 50 milligrams

So, Yosef drank 50 milligrams of vitamin C.

To find the percent of the daily recommended amount of vitamin C this represents, we can use another proportion:

80 milligrams 100%

50 milligrams x%

Solving for x, we have:

x = (50/80) * 100 ≈ 62.5%

Therefore, Yosef drank orange juice containing 62.5% of the daily recommended amount of vitamin C.