Question

A school will give its baseball teams less than $840 to buy new helmets. Each helmet costs $20. The maximum number of helmets, c, they can purchase is represented by the inequality 20c < 840. Select the maximum number of helmets they can buy.

A. 28
B. 32
C. 41
D. 44
E.84

Answer 1

Maximum number of helmets they can buy is 41

Explanation:

We are given the following information in the question:

A school will give its baseball teams less than $840 to buy new helmets.

Cost of each helmet = $20

Let c be the maximum number they can purchase.

Then, this situation can be represented with the help of an inequality:

`20c < 840`

To find the number of maximum helmet, they can buy, we have to solve the inequality:

`20c < 840\\\\c < \displaystyle(840)/(20) \\\\c < 48`

Thus, the maximum number of helmets they can buy should be less than 42.

Since, helmets are discrete, thus, they buy 41 helmets.