Question

Harold lives on Doritos and seafood salads. The price of Doritos is 1 dollar per bag and the price of seafood salads is 2 dollars each. Harold allows himself to spend no more than 11 dollars a day on food. He also restricts his consumption to 6,500 calories per day. There are 1,500 calories in a bag of Doritos and 500 calories in a seafood salad. If he spends his entire money budget each day and consumes no more calories than his calo-rie limit, he can consume up to

a. 3 bag of Doritos per day but no more.
b. 4 bag of seafood salad per day but no more.
c. 5 bag of Doritos per day but no more.
d. 1 bag of Doritos per day but no more.

Answer 1

Harold can consume up to:

a. 3 bag of Doritos per day but no more.

Step-by-step explanation:

a) Data and Calculations:

1 bag of Doritos = $1

1 bag of Doritos contains 1,500 calories

Therefore 3 bags of Doritos = $3

This leaves him with $8 ($11 - $3) to spend on seafood salad for the remaining 2,000 calories

The 3 bags of Doritos enable him to get 4,500 calories (3 * 1,500)

The remaining 2,000 calories, he will now get by consuming 4 seafood salads at a cost of $8 ($2 * 4)