Asked by April

Club is selling lemonade at $2/ bottle and water at $1.50/ bottle . they need to raise $500. they can accept a maximum of 360 cans and bottles. club sells 144 cans of lemonade what is the least number of bottles to be sold.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Lemonade brings in 144 × $2 = $288. They need $500 − $288 = $212 more.
Each bottle of water is $1.50, so they need at least 212 / 1.5 = 141.333... bottles, i.e. 142 bottles (must be whole).

Check capacity: 144 + 142 = 286 ≤ 360, so feasible.

Answer: 142 bottles.