Question

A container of soft drink was shared between four work teams if employees. The first team took 1/3 of the soft drink, the second team took 1/2 of what was left, and the remaining two teams shared the remaining soft drink equally between them. If there were originally 240 litres of soft drink, how many litres of soft drink did the third team get?

Answer 1

1st team: 1/3*240 = 80
remaining = 160
2nd team: 1/2"160 = 80
remaining = 80
3rd and 4th team: 40

Answer 2

Initial quantity of soft drinks = 240 liters

According the question :-

First team took = $\frac{1}{3}$ ×240 = 80 liters of soft drinks

remaining quantity of soft drinks = 240 - 80 = 160 liters

2nd team took=$\frac{1}{2}$ ×160 = 80 liters of soft drinks

remaining quantity of soft drinks 160- 80= 80litres of soft drinks.

remaining 80 liters of soft drinks will be equally shared between 3rd and 4 th team.

∴3rd and 4th team will get = 80 ÷2 = 40 liters of soft drinks each.

Ans :-3rd team will get 40 liters of soft drinks.