Question

ART SUPPLIES Lenny has $44 to buy art supplies. He buys a $10 paintbrush and some drawing pencils for $4.25 each. Write an inequality to show how many drawing pencils x he can buy while remaining in his budget. Then solve the inequality.

Answer 1

Answer: 8

Explanation:

If Lenny has $44, then he has $34 after buying the paintbrush. If each pencil costs $4.25, and we denote the number of pencils Lenny buys with "y", then we must have 4.25y <= 34.

Solve this by dividing both sides by 4.25 to get y <= 8.

So Lenny can buy up to 8 pencils and stay within his budget of $44.