Question

The supermarket has displays for water bottles which are arranges in rows and columns. Each display is 5 rows deep and 6 columns wide. The total number of water bottles in display in the supermarket can be calculated using the following expression.

5 X 6 X s

What does s in the expression represent?
A. The total number of displays in the supermarket
B. The total number of water bottles in the supermarket.
C. The number of water bottles arranged on each display.
D. The number of displays on which the water bottles are arranged.

Answer 1

@zimmah

Answer 2

D

Answer 3

Is it C?

Answer 4

it wouldn't make sense to have a formula for the amount of water bottles where one of the inputs is the amount of water bottles itself

Answer 5

But each display is 5 rows deep and 6 columns wide. Wouldn't it make sense if we knew the amount of water bottles on each of the displays?

Answer 6

Yes, 5 * 6 = the amount of bottles per display.
but no one said the supermarket uses only 1 display

Answer 7

I believe that in the problem it says "each display".

Answer 8

Yes, each display has 6 rows and stacks 5 deep. But, the total amount of bottles in the supermarket depend also on the amount of displays.