Ms. Huber is buying soda for the pizza party her class earned. She estimates that each of her 24 students will drink 250 milliliters of soda on average. How many 2-liter bottles of soda should she buy?

Question

Write your answer as a whole number, decimal, or simplified fraction. Do not round.
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Answer 1

To find out how many 2-liter bottles of soda Ms. Huber should buy, we start by calculating the total amount of soda needed for her 24 students.

Each student is estimated to drink 250 milliliters. Therefore, the total amount of soda needed is:

\[ \text{Total soda needed (in milliliters)} = \text{Number of students} \times \text{Amount per student} \] \[ \text{Total soda needed} = 24 \times 250 = 6000 \text{ milliliters} \]

Next, we need to convert milliliters to liters, since each bottle holds 2 liters:

\[ \text{Total soda needed (in liters)} = \frac{6000 \text{ milliliters}}{1000 \text{ milliliters/liter}} = 6 \text{ liters} \]

Now we need to determine how many 2-liter bottles are required:

\[ \text{Number of bottles} = \frac{6 \text{ liters}}{2 \text{ liters/bottle}} = 3 \]

Thus, Ms. Huber should buy:

\[ \boxed{3} \] bottles of soda.