There are 600 bottles of sports drinks in a store. 25% of the bottles are orange flavored

drinks. On Monday 30% of the orange flavored drinks in the store were sold and on

Tuesday 20% of the remaining orange flavored drinks were sold. How many bottles of

orange flavored drinks were sold in two days?

Hint: First find out how many of the 600 are orange. Then subtract off 30% for Monday.

Next, subtract off the 20% for Tuesday. Finally, figure the difference between how

many bottles you started with and the ending number of bottles.

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Amour

Mathematics

16 September, 08:21

There are 600 bottles of sports drinks in a store. 25% of the bottles are orange flavored

drinks. On Monday 30% of the orange flavored drinks in the store were sold and on

Tuesday 20% of the remaining orange flavored drinks were sold. How many bottles of

orange flavored drinks were sold in two days?

Hint: First find out how many of the 600 are orange. Then subtract off 30% for Monday.

Next, subtract off the 20% for Tuesday. Finally, figure the difference between how

many bottles you started with and the ending number of bottles.

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Xander · Answer 1

84 bottles left at the end of the two days.

Step-by-step explanation:

you started with 600 bottles, of those 600, 150 were orange. you then multiply 150 by. 3 to get 45. you subtract 45 from 150 to get 105. you then multiply 105 by. 2 and get 21. you then subtract 21 from 105 to get 84.