Question

Orange squash is used to make an orange drink. Jill is going to make an orange drink for 50 people. She is going to make 2 full glasses of orange drink for each person. She needs 250 millilitres of orange drink for each glass Here are the instructions for making orange drink. Mix 1 part of orange squash with 4 parts of water. A one litre bottle of orange squash costs £2. Work out the total cost of the bottles of orange squash Jill needs to buy.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Jill needs to make 2 full glasses of orange drink for each of the 50 people, which means she needs to make a total of 100 glasses of orange drink. Since each glass requires 250 millilitres of orange drink, Jill needs a total of 25 litres (100 glasses x 250 millilitres per glass) of orange drink.

According to the instructions, Jill needs to mix 1 part of orange squash with 4 parts of water. This means that for every 5 parts of drink, 1 part is orange squash and 4 parts are water. Therefore, Jill needs to use 5 times the amount of water as the amount of orange squash.

If Jill needs to make 25 litres of orange drink, then she needs to use 1/5th of that amount (5 parts) or 5 litres of orange squash.

A one litre bottle of orange squash costs £2. Therefore, Jill needs to buy 5 bottles of orange squash at a total cost of £10.

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