Question: Strangely, the wine for a large wedding reception is to be served in a stunning cut-glass receptacle with the interior dimensions of 40 cm x

Strangely, the wine for a large wedding reception is to be served in a stunning cut-glass receptacle with the interior dimensions of 40 cm x 40 cm x 30 cm (height). The receptacle is to be initially filled to the top. The wine can be purchased in bottles of the sizes given in the following table. Purchasing a larger bottle instead of multiple smaller bottles decreases the overall cost of the wine. To minimize the cost,

(a) Which bottle sizes should be purchased and how many of each should be purchased and, once the receptacle is filled, how much wine is left over in terms of

(b) Standard bottles and

(c) Liters?

1 standard bottle

1 Magnum = 2 standard bottles

1 Jeroboam = 4 standard bottles

1 Rehoboam = 6 standard bottles

1 Methuselah = 8 standard bottles

1 Salmanazar = 12 standard bottles

1 Balthazar = 1.6 standard bottles = l1.356 L

1 Nebuchadnezzar = 20 standard bottles

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