2011 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 2

Problem 2

A small bottle of shampoo can hold 35 milliliters of shampoo, whereas a large bottle can hold 500 milliliters of shampoo. Jasmine wants to buy the minimum number of small bottles necessary to completely fill a large bottle. How many bottles must she buy?

$\textbf{(A)}\ 11 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 12 \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 13\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 14\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 15$

Solution

You want to find the minimum number of small bottles, so you do $500/35 \approx 14.3$ which you round to $15$ .

$(E) 15$

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2011 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 2

Problem 2

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