Question

Harper has $15to spend at the grocery store.She is going to buy bags of fruit that cost $4.75 each and one box of crackers that costs$3.50.Write and solve an inequality that models this situation and could be used to determine the maximum number of bags of fruit Harper can buy

Answer 1

The maximum number of fruits bag Harper can buy are 3.

Explanation:

Let there be x bags of fruits.

Let there be y boxes of chocolates

Cost of 1 bag of fruit = $4.75

So, cost of x bags = $4.75x

Cost of one box of crackers costs = $3.50

As per the given situation, the inequality forms:

`4.75x+3.50y\leq 15`

So, the maximum number of bags of fruit Harper can buy, is when she buys no box of cracker.

So, putting y = 0 in above inequality , we have,

`4.75x+3.50(0)\leq 15`

=>
`4.75x+0\leq 15`

=>
`4.75x \leq 15`

`x\leq 3.15` rounding to 3.

Hence, the maximum number of fruits bag Harper can buy are 3.