Question

Ophelia bought a 1.5-pint bottle of a sports drink. How many fluid ounces are in the sports drink bottle? There are fluid ounces in the sports drink bottle.

Answer 1

24

Explanation:

1 pint = 16 ounces

1.5 pint = 16 × 1.5 ounces

1.5 pint = 24 ounces

Answer 2

24 fluid ounces

Explanation:

There are 16 fluid ounces in 1 pint.

Here, however, we have 1.5 pints, so we need to set up a proportion:

`(16)/(1) =(x)/(1.5)` , where x is the number of fluid ounces we want

We cross multiply and find that x = 16 * 1.5 = 24 fluid ounces, which is the answer.