Final answer:
The coach can buy 11 bat bags with their $605 budget, but since there are 12 players and each bat bag costs $55, the coach needs $660 and is $55 short. Therefore, the coach does not have enough money to buy a bat bag for each player.
Step-by-step explanation:
The question asks whether the coach has enough money to buy bat bags for each player on a softball team if each bag costs $55 and there are 12 players.
To determine if the coach has enough funds, we calculate the total cost of buying 12 bat bags: 12 bags × $55 per bag = $660.
Comparing the total cost of $660 to the coach's budget of $605, we find that the coach is $660 - $605 = $55 short.
Therefore, the greatest number of bat bags the coach can buy is $605 ÷ $55 = 11 bags.
The coach needs to buy 12 bags but can only purchase 11 with the available funds, meaning the coach does not have enough money to buy a bat bag for each player.