Question

Roland receives $500 as a graduation present from his aunt. He plans to use part of the money to purchase a laptop for $289, including tax. He will purchase some new video games with the remaining money. Each video game costs $52, including tax. Which inequality describes, v, the number of video games Roland can purchase with his graduation money?

Answer 1

52x < $211

Explanation:

If Roland uses $289 to purchase the laptop from the $500 that was given to him then he would be left with

500 - 289 = $211

With this he can purchase video games. Since each video game costs the same price of $52 then we can use the variable x to represent the number of games he can buy with the following inequality...

52x < $211