Question

Marat has $16 to buy doughnuts for Saturday morning breakfast. Specialty doughnuts cost $2 each and glazed doughnuts cost $1 each. Write and graph an inequality to describe the situation. Then give two possible combinations of specialty and glazed doughnuts that Marat can buy.

Answer 1

Two possibilities are 8 Specialty doughnuts or, 16 glazed doughnuts.

Explanation:

Let, Marat can buy x specialty doughnuts and y glazed doughnuts.

Marat will be able to buy the doughnuts if
`2x + y \leq 16`.

If we put x = 0 in 2x + y = 16, then y = 16.

For y = 0, x = 8.

Marat can buy 0 doughnuts or can buy some, but the total amount needs to be in between 16.