A student had 500 milliliters of water in a water bottle. She drank 25% of the water before soccer practice. After practice, she drank 1/3 of the remaining water.
How much water, in milliliters, does the student have left in the bottle?
Answer:
the amount of water the student have left in the bottle is 250 milliliters
Explanation:
A student had 500 milliliters of water in a water bottle. She drank 25% of the water before soccer practice. After practice, she drank 1/3 of the remaining water.
How much water, in milliliters, does the student have left in the bottle?
Before the soccer practice, she drank 25 % of the water
25% of the water = 25% of 500
= 25% × 500
=
× 500
At the right hand-side of the equation, the two zeros will cancel-out the other two zeros, hence;
= 25 × 5
=125
25% of the water = 125 milliliters
From the question, it was said that drank 25% of the water before soccer, this implies that she drank 125 milliliters from the water bottles.
If she drank 125 milliliters of from a 500 milliliters water contain in the water bottle, then the amount of water left will be 500 ml - 125 ml = 375 ml
This implies that before the soccer practice she had 375 milliliters of water left in the water bottle.
After the practice, she drank 1/3 of the remaining water, which means after the practice she drank 1/3 of 375
1/3 of 375 =
× 375 =
= 125
After the practice she drank 125 milliliters of water from her 375 milliliters water.
The amount of water she have left after the practice will be;
375 milliliters - 125 milliliters = 250 milliliters
Therefore, the amount of water the student have left in the bottle is 250 milliliters