Question

Your beginning balance on your lunch account is $42. You buy lunch for $1.80 every day and sometimes buy a snack for $0.85. After 20 days, you have a balance of $0.05. How many snacks did you buy?

Answer 1

The answer to your question is: I bought 7 snacks

Explanation:

Data

beginning balance = $42 = b

lunch = $1.80 = l

snack = $ 0.85 = s

final balance = $0.05 = f

f = b - 1.8l - 0.05s

0.05 = 42 - 1.8l - 0.85s

After 20 days I spent = 1.8(20) in lunches = $36

0.05 = 42 - 36 - 0.85s

0.05 = 6 - 0.85s

0.05 - 6 = -0.85s

-5.95 = -0.85s

s = -5.95/-0.85

s = 7