Question

A bottle filled with juice weighs 8 pounds. One morning, George drank 2/3 of the juice in the filled bottle. The bottle and the remaining juice weighed 3 pounds. What is the weight of the empty bottle?

Answer 1

The remaining weight of the empty bottle is 0.5 because each third of the bottle weighs 2.5 pounds and of the remaining juice and the bottle was 3 pounds 2.5 subtracted from 3 is 0.5