Question

A concession-stand manager buys bottles of water and soda to sell at a football game. The manager needs to buy a total of 4,500 drinks and have 25% more water than soda. Let w be the number of bottles of water and let s be the number of bottles of soda. Create a system of equations the manager could use to find out how many bottles of water and soda to buy.

Answer 1

Sodas-50%
Water-50%+25%=75%
Total-75%+50%=125%

4500÷125%=36
1%=36

Sodas-36×50=1800
Water-36×75=2700

He needs to buy 2700 bottles of water and 1800 bottles of sodas.