Question

A coffee shop uses 4 liters of milk every day.

a. If there are 15 liters of milk in the refrigerator, after how many days will more milk need to be purchased? Explain how you know.
b. If only half as much milk is used each day, after how many days will more milk need to be purchased?

Answer 1

explained

Explanation:

a. daily requirement of milk = 4 liters

15 liters of milk is present

this 15 liters of milk will be used up in
`(15)/(4)` days

= 3(3/4) days , so after 3 days only more milk will be required to purchase.

b. daily milk consumption is reduced to half = 2 liters

Now, 15 liters of milk will be used up in
`(15)/(2)`= 7.5 or 7(1/2) days.

Hence now milk will be purchased after 7 days.