A container holds 3,500 ounces of juice. A restaurant places the juice into 28 ounce bottles. How many FULL bottles of juice can the restaurant produce?

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Tony B
May 9, 2018

125 full bottles

Explanation:

It is a matter of how many 28's will fit into 3500 #->3500-:28#

By calculator this gives: #3500-:28=125#

But suppose you do not have a calculator. Lets try long division.

# color(white)("dddddddddd") 3500#
#100xx28 -> ul(2800 larr" Subtract")#
# color(white)("ddddddddddd") 700#
#20xx28 -> color(white)("dd")ul( 560 larr" Subtract")#
# color(white)("ddddddddddd") 140#
#5xx28-> color(white)("ddd") ul(140 larr" Subtract")#
# color(white)("dddddddddddd") 0 larr" No remainder so stop"#

#100#
# color(white)("d") 20#
# ul(color(white)(12) 5 larr" Add")#
#125# as required

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