Question

You have decided to throw a party next weekend for 19 friends. The friends are going to bring health food, so all you have to have available are the drinks. You estimate that, on average, each person will drink four bottles of soft drinks. Three of your friends will drink only natural soda without unneeded color - so Sulo Ginger Ale should work well for them. For the others and yourself, you decide to buy Sulo Cola. Before going online, you check the refrigerator - you already have six bottles of Sulo Ginger Ale and 14 of Sulo Cola. Since this is the end of the semester - you decide that you don't really want any of the soft drinks on hand after the party. Now, you are ordering on the Internet.

A. How many bottles of Sulo Ginger Ale do you plan to buy?
B. How many bottles of Sulo Cola do you plan to buy?

Answer 1

A. The number of bottles of Sulo Ginger Ale to buy is 6.

B. The number of bottles of Sulo Cola to buy is 54.

Step-by-step explanation:

a) Data and Calculations:

The number of friends attending the party = 19

When you are included, there are 20 persons attending.

Estimated number of bottles of soft drinks for each person = 4

Therefore, the total number of bottles of soft drinks required for the party = 80 (20 * 4).

Number of persons drinking Sulo Ginger = 3

Bottles of Sulo Ginger required = 3 * 4 = 12

Number of persons drinking Sulo Cola = 17

Bottles of Sulo Cola required = 68

The classification of the drinks is as follows:

Sulo Ginger Sulo Cola

Bottles required 12 68

Bottles available 6 14

Bottles to buy 6 54