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4 Abi is going to buy ingredients to make 65 hot chocolate drinks.

She needs 12 g of chocolate powder and 5 marshmallows to make each drink
Abi can buy
chocolate powder in 250 g jars at £2.99 per jar
marshmallows in bags of 120 marshmallows at £1.45 per bag
Work out the total cost of the chocolate powder and the marshmallows she needs to buy.

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Answer:

To make 65 chocolate drinks, she needs:

12 g of chocolate powder and 5 marshmallows per drink.

Then she needs:

12g*65 = 780 grams of chocolate powder.

We know that the chocolate powder comes in jars of 250g, such that each one costs £2.99

If she buys 3 jars, she will have: 3*250g = 750g

So she will not have enough, then she needs to buy 4 jars.

Then in chocolate powder, she will pay 4 times £2.99 = £11.96

And for marshmallows, she needs:

65*5 = 325 in total.

Marshmallows come in bags of 120, then the number of packs that Abi needs to buy is:

325/120 = 2.7

That should be rounded up (because she can not buy a 0.7 of a bag)

Then she needs 3 bags, and each bag costs £1.45

Then the total cost in marshmallows is 3*£1.45 = £4.35

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