Question

Shern goes to the BX with $19. She buys a gift for her mom that costs $7.25. She also needs to make sure that she has $2.75 left when she leaves the BX to buy lunch the next day. She sees that bags of Skittles are on sale for $0.50 each. How many bags can she buy to have as many bags as possible. Write and solve an inequality to represent the situation. Show your work. (10 points) Your answer:

Answer 1

Answer: 16

Step-by-step explanation: when ur doing subtacting ur gonna notice a pattern like 11.25 10.75 10.25 9.75 9.25 because if u start with 19 and minus 0.50 the u get ur answers 16 the 11.25 dosnt count because that for the gift after u spend 7.24 on the gift ur gonna have 11.25 and keep couniting down but also keep tract on how many it takes to get to 2.75