Question

Jerome is a pharmacy technician that filled a prescription that use 1/4 bottle of ibuprofen. How many pills did jerome use for the prescription if there are 1000 pills in each bottle? write an equation and solve

Answer 1

It is clearly mentioned in the question that each bottle of ibuprofen has 1000 pills.

Now, 1/4 bottle of ibuprofen is used to make the prescription.

So, if one bottle of ibuprofen has 1000 pills and 1/4 1/4 bottle of ibuprofen is used to make the prescription, then Jerome obviously used $\frac{1000}{4}=250$ pills of ibuprofen to make the prescription.

This can be further explained as follows:

1 bottle=1000 pills

$\therefore \frac{1}{4}$ bottle=$\frac{1000}{4}$=250 pills.