Half Gone

Algebra Level 1

A full bottle of green tea weighs 350 grams.
With half the tea consumed, it weighs 200 grams.

What is the weight of the empty bottle?

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15 solutions

Venkatachalam J
Apr 2, 2017

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Very nice! Even what seems like a purely algebraic problem can have a visual interpretation.

Great visual illustration!

Agnishom Chattopadhyay - 4 years, 2 months ago

Much simpler than solving it algebraically. Good job.

Ryan Flint - 4 years, 2 months ago

greatly explained.

Halima Tahmina - 3 years, 10 months ago

Let b = b = weight of the bottle alone and g = g = weight of the green tea alone.

Then,

b + g = 350 g b + g = 350 g and

b + 1 2 g = 200 g b + \frac{1}{2}g = 200 g .

Solving for the equations gives us

b = 50 g b = 50 g

Symbolize the mass as g is confused with the units in grams.

Plinio Teherán Sermeño - 4 years, 2 months ago

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I agree, choosing a different symbol for mass of green tea will make this easier to understand.

Pranshu Gaba - 4 years, 2 months ago

Silly me. Forgot to minus the bottle weight -.-

Hussein Issa - 4 years, 2 months ago

That's it!!!

JAVIER ADOLFO PEREA - 4 years, 2 months ago
Lohith Tummala
Mar 26, 2017

Half of the tea itself weighs 150g. Subtract it from 200g to get 50g.

I subtracted the second picture from the first to get 150g, the mass all the tea divided by two

Lohith Tummala - 4 years, 2 months ago

Short and sweet solution!

Pranshu Gaba - 4 years, 2 months ago

Hey how do you know that half of the tea itself weighs 150g? Sorry I didn't get it, because 350/2= 175

Lari Hayes - 4 years, 2 months ago

Oh I got it! Thanks a lot :)

Lari Hayes - 4 years, 2 months ago

I think It needs to be less than 50g, becouse of the shape of the bottle, it could not have the same weight the upper part, as it is smaller because of the bottle neck.

Walter Allegretti - 4 years, 2 months ago

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The image is just for representation. The text clearly says half of tea is consumed...

Pranshu Gaba - 4 years, 2 months ago
Annie Li
Apr 4, 2017

350-200=150= the weight of half of the water. 150+150=300=weight of all the water. 350-300=50=50g so therefore, the answer is 50g

Let b b be the weight of the empty bottle and t t be the weight of the green tea.

b + t = 350 b + t = 350 ( 1 ) \color{#D61F06}(1)

b + 1 2 t = 200 b + \frac{1}{2}t = 200 ( 2 ) \color{#D61F06}(2)

Subtracting ( 2 ) \color{#D61F06}(2) from ( 1 ) \color{#D61F06}(1) , we get

1 2 t = 150 \frac{1}{2}t = 150

t = 300 t = 300

Solving for b b by substituting 300 300 for t t in ( 1 ) \color{#D61F06}(1) or ( 2 ) \color{#D61F06}(2) , we get

b + 300 = 350 b + 300 = 350 \color{#3D99F6}\implies b = 50 \boxed{\large\color{#20A900}b = 50}

or

b + 1 2 300 = 200 b + \frac{1}{2}300 = 200 \color{#3D99F6}\implies b = 50 \boxed{\large\color{#20A900}b = 50}

Yes. You have evaluated the values of "b" and "t". But is it possible to evaluate the value of "b" directly, without knowing the value of "t"?

Pi Han Goh - 4 years, 2 months ago

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Of course, it's possible Clear t from (1) and replace at (2), and solve b

Plinio Teherán Sermeño - 4 years, 2 months ago
Munem Shahriar
Jun 10, 2017

Given that,

• A full bottle of green tea weighs 350 grams.

• With half the tea consumed, it weighs 200 grams.

Now ,

350 - 200 = 150. 150 is the half of the water so, 200 - 150 = 50 grams is the weight of the empty bottle

Mohammad Khaza
Jul 26, 2017

bottle+full water (suppose 1)= 350 350 gm...............................[1]

bottle+ 1 2 \frac{1}{2} water = 200 200 gm.................................[2]

subtracting [2] from [1] we get,

b o t t l e + f u l l w a t e r ( 1 ) b o t t l e 1 2 w a t e r bottle +full water(1) -bottle-\frac{1}{2} water = 350 200 350-200

or, 1 2 \frac{1}{2} water= 150 150

now,

bottle+ 1 2 \frac{1}{2} water = 200 200 gm.................................[2]

or, bottle+ 150 150 = 200 200

or,bottle= 50 50

so, the empty bottle is 50 gram

Ichigo Rdon
Apr 7, 2017

(Total empty bottle /w Full green tea)350

-(Total empty bottle /w Half green tea)200

=(Half green tea)150

(Total empty bottle /w Full green tea)350

-(Full green 150X2)300

=(Total empty bottle)50

350-200=150, which is total weight minus the remaining weight which gives the weight of half the tea (I.e. the amount consumed).

150x2=300, which is total weight of the tea.

350-300=50, which is total weight minus the weight of all tea, leaving the weight of the bottle as 50 grams.

Shortcut (as per Lohith's sol'n), once you know the weight of half the tea, subtract it from the remaining weight (I.e. 200-150=50).

Let the weight of the empty bottle be 'X' gms. and the weight of the green tea (in full bottle) be 'Y' gms. Then, according to the problem, we have two equations. X+Y=350; X+Y/2=200 whence we get X=50 gms.

J Yoest
Apr 6, 2017

I have no idea what the weight of the bottle is, but its mass seems to be 50 grams.

Gia Hoàng Phạm
Aug 16, 2018

First we do 350 200 = 150 350-200=150 ,then 200 150 = 50 200-150=\boxed{\large{50}}

Kitty Saravanan
Jun 10, 2017

The full bottle was 350 g. The half-full bottle was 200 g. So, 150 g was taken away. To find the empty bottle's weight, you have to subtract 150 g from 200 g.

Foxy The Pro
May 1, 2017

Here's an easy way I solved it:

I can see that 350g - 250g = 150g. That means that the amount that was drank weight 150g. Since that was half the bottle, we can then subtract 150 from 200 (200-150) and we get the answer, 50g.

Matthew Warwick
Apr 9, 2017

We have 2 pieces of information: - A full jar weighs 350g - A half-full jar weighs 200g

The full jar weighs 150g more than the half-full jar. Because of this, we can assume the full liquid is 300g ( 150 g × 2 150g \times 2 )

Thus 350g (full jar) - 300g (full liquid) = 50g. Thus will be the weight of the jar by itself.

Thus the answer is 50g

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