Question

Max spent 11 dollars on items. He bought milk, eggs and fabric softener. The eggs cost one fifth of what the milk cost and the fabric softener is 3 times what the milk costs. Write an equation to find the price of the milk. *Show all work please*

Answer 1

Ok so he has 11 dollars he buys eggs that is one fifth of what the milk cost and the fabric softener is 3 times how much the milk cost so adding 1/5 3 times 0.6 so he spent about 6 dollars on milk. Hope this helps:)

Answer 2

m + e + f = 11
e = 1/5m
f = 3m

m + 1/5m + 3m = 11 <== ur equation
5/5m + 1/5m + 15/5m = 11
21/5m = 11
m = 11 / (21/5)
m = 11 * 5/21
m = 55/21
m = 2.619 rounds to 2.62...milk

e = 1/5m
e = 1/5(2.62)
e = 0.53 .....eggs

f = 3m
f = 3(2.62)
f = 7.86...fabric softener