Question

A brand of laundry soap is packaged in a new bottle. The new label claims to have 140% as much as the old bottle. The new bottle contains 175 ounces of soap. How many ounces of soap were in the old bottle?

Answer 1

In order to calculate how many ounces the old bottle had, we just need to divide the weight of the new bottle by the percentage increase:

`\text{old bottle}=\frac{175}{140\text{\%}}=(175)/(1.4)=125`

So the old bottle has 125 ounces.