Question

Sabine can't tell the difference between coke and pepsi—the two taste exactly the same to her. sabine has $6 to spend on cola this week. coke costs $1.50 per six-pack and pepsi costs $1.00 per six-pack. what is the maximum amount of coke she could buy? the maximum amount of pepsi?

Answer 1

Well Sabine has two choices as she can't differentiate between the tastes of Coke and Pepsi. She has $6 to spend on cola for this week. So we need to know the max amount of colas she can buy with $6. Following are the calculations

Cost of Coke per 6 packs= $1.5

Cost of Pepsi per 6 packs= $1

So from $6, she can either buy:

Coke: $6/$1.5= 4 six packs of coke OR

Pepsi: $6/$1   = 6 six packs of Pepsi

So if she buys Coke, she would have 4*6= 24 bottles of Coke

or if she buys Pepsi, she would have 6*6= 36 bottles of Pepsi

Answer 2

Coke - 24 (i.e $6/$1.50 = 4 packs x 6)
Pepsi - 36 (i.e $6/$1 = 6 packs x 6)