A water cooler can hold 25 liters of electrolyte water. The football team drank 5 liters of the drink. How much is left in the water cooler?
What math operation could you use to solve the problem below?
A water cooler can hold 25 liters of electrolyte water. The football team drank 5 liters of the drink. How much is left in the water cooler?
subtraction
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1 answer
To solve the problem of finding out how much electrolyte water is left in the water cooler after the football team drank 5 liters, you would use subtraction.
You would subtract the amount consumed (5 liters) from the total capacity (25 liters):
25 liters (total) - 5 liters (drank) = 20 liters (left).
So the correct operation is subtraction.
