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Marco and his parents are planning a family reunion and 120 people are expected. Each bottle of juice contains enough for 7servings. How many bottles of juice will be needed to give each person one serving? Make sure to account for each person.2115 18 17

User Ephenodrom
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If 120 are expected and 1 bottle has 7 servings, we can divide 120 by 7 to see how many bottles we need:


(120)/(7)=17.14\ldots

As we can see, we would need 17 bottles and a little more. That is, 17 is not enough, we need one more.

So, in total, we need 18 bottles.

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