Question

Mike bought 17 bottles of beer from a shop. He wants tomove these bottles to his car. If he can only carry 3 bottles at a time, what is the minimum number of trips he needs to maketo carry these bottles?

Answer 1

Mike will need to make a minimum of 6 trips to move all of the bottles to his car.

To determine the minimum number of trips Mike needs to make to carry the 17 bottles of beer to his car, divide the total number of bottles by the number of bottles he can carry in each trip:

Seventeen divides evenly into three five times with a remainder of two. This means that Mike can carry 3 bottles on each of the first 5 trips, and on the 6th trip, he can carry the remaining 2 bottles.

So, the correct answer is that Mike needs to make a minimum of 6 trips to carry the 17 bottles of beer to his car, carrying 3 bottles on each of the first 5 trips and 2 bottles on the last trip.