A bottle filled with juice weighs 8 pounds. One morning, George drank 2/3 of the juice in the filled bottle. The bottle and the remaining juice weighed 3 pounds. What is the weight of the empty bottle?
the remaining weight of the empty bottle is 0.5 because each third of the bottle weighs 2.5 pounds and of the remaining juice and the bottle was 3 pounds 2.5 subtracted from 3 is 0.5