Question

Zee wants to make 2 liters of a special drink for a party. She squeezed the eight lemons she had and got 0.375 liters of lemon juice. She had 0.35 liters of cranberry juice, and 1.2 liters of water. How much of the special drink can she make? How much more or less than 2 liters will she have? Use the math you know to answer the question. a. How can you estimate the amount of the special drink Zee can make?

Answer 1

We have the following ingredients

0.375 liters of lemon juice

0.35 liters of cranberry juice

1.2 liters of water

We need to perform the decimal addition to find out how much of the special drink can she make

Zee can make 1.925 liters of special drink.

How much more or less than 2 liters will she have?

Now we need to subtract this amount from 2 liters.

Zee will have 0.075 liters less than 2 liters.

How can you estimate the amount of the special drink Zee can make?​

We can estimate by rounding off 0.375 liters of lemon juice to 0.4

We can estimate by rounding off 0.35 liters of cranberry juice to 0.4

So the estimated amount of juice is

0.4 + 0.4 + 1.2 = 2 liters