Suppose a school provides bottled water to its students. The average student drinks 85 gallons
of water during the school year at an average cost of $1 per gallon. If the same amount of water
had come from a water fountain instead, how much money would the school have saved
per student? O
(Hint: The average cost for tap water is $0.002/gallon.)
Read the following, then answer the questions below (Hint: Round to the nearest tenth):
A school gives away 3,200 gallons of bottled water over the year.
Approximately 0.018 gallons of oil is used to produce each gallon-size bottle.
One gallon of oil costs $1.50.
Two gallons of water are used to make each bottle.
a. In all, how many gallons of oil were used to produce 3,200 gallons of bottled
water? - At what cost? 48.00
b. How much water was used to make the bottles?3,700