Question

You want to buy some new jeans and spend less than $75. A store advertises a sale where all jeans are $15. Write an inequality to find how many pair of jeans you can buy. Use the variable j for jeans.

Answer 1

You can use the inequality j <= 5 to represent the number of pairs of jeans you can buy with a budget of $75, where each pair of jeans costs $15.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how many pairs of jeans you can buy with a budget of less than $75 when each pair costs $15, you can write the inequality j < $75 / $15, where j represents the number of pairs of jeans.

To solve this inequality:

• Divide $75 by $15 to find the maximum number of pairs of jeans you can purchase.
• $75 / $15 = 5, so you can buy up to 5 pairs of jeans.
• The inequality representing the situation is j <= 5.

Therefore, you can buy 5 or fewer pairs of jeans to stay within your $75 budget.