Question

Bryant and Annissa are getting cookies for their math class. They have a total budget of $75 to spend at the bakery. Chocolate chip cookies cost $1.50 each, and sugar cookies cost $0.75 each. They spent $18.75 on sugar cookies. How many chocolate chip cookies, C, can they afford with the rest of their budget?

a) C ≤ 50
b) C ≥ 50
c) C = 50
d) C = 75

Answer 1

Bryant and Annissa can afford to buy 37 chocolate chip cookies with their remaining budget after spending $18.75 on sugar cookies.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how many chocolate chip cookies Bryant and Annissa can afford with the rest of their budget, we need to subtract the amount spent on sugar cookies from their total budget. They spent $18.75 on sugar cookies, so they have $75 - $18.75 = $56.25 left to spend on chocolate chip cookies.

Next, we need to calculate how many chocolate chip cookies they can buy with this remaining budget. Each chocolate chip cookie costs $1.50, so we divide the remaining budget by the cost per cookie: $56.25 / $1.50 = 37.5.

Since you cannot buy a fraction of a cookie, they can only afford to buy 37 chocolate chip cookies with their remaining budget.