Question

You have $9 to spend on lip balm and hand sanitizer. The equation $1.5x+2.5y=9$ represents this situation, where x is tubes of lip balm and y is bottles of hand sanitizer. How many tubes of lip balm can you buy when you do not buy any bottles of hand sanitizer?

Answer 1

6 tubes of lip balm

Explanation:

We can start solving this problem by isolating the variable x.

Given the equation 1.5x + 2.5y = 9, and we know that y = 0 (because we're not buying any bottles of hand sanitizer), we can substitute this into the equation:

1.5x + 2.5(0) = 9

Simplifying this, we get:

1.5x = 9

To solve for x, we can divide both sides of the equation by 1.5:

x = 9/1.5

x = 6

So we can buy 6 tubes of lip balm if we do not buy any bottles of hand sanitizer