Question

You have $32 to spend at the music store. Each cassette tape costs $5 and each cd costs $9. Write a linea inequality that represents this situation. Let x represent the number of tapes and y the number of cds

Answer 1

5x+9y≤32

Explanation:

Answer 2

5x+9y≤32

Explanation:

Let x be the number of cassette tapes you purchase.

Let y be the number of CDs you purchase.

The problem is you only have $32 to spend.

Different combinations of tapes and CDs are possible. We want an equation showing this relationship.

One cassette tape costs $5. The cost for any number of cassette tapes is $5 times the number

purchased; that's 5 times x, or 5x.

To find the cost of CDs purchased, we multiply $9 times the number of CDs, $9 times y or 9y.

The cost of the total purchase is

[the cost of the cassettes] + [the cost of the CDs] or

5x + 9y

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