Question

Mar 17, 11:56:21 AMHarper and her children went into a bakery and will buy cupcakes and brownies.Each cupcake costs $4.25 and each brownie costs $2.75. Harper has a total of $40 tospend on cupcakes and brownies. Write an inequality that would represent thepossible values for the number of cupcakes purchased, c, and the number of browniespurchased, b.Answer:Submit Answer

Answer 1

Let 'c' be the number of cupcakes and let 'b' be the number of brownies. Since Harper has a total of $40 to spend, this means that the total bill cannot go higher than 40, then, we have the following expression to represent this situation:

`4.25c+2.75b\le40`