Question

.Zach loves to play video games. He gets an allowance of $100 each month. He can downloadnew games to play for $5 each. He also likes to have snacks while he plays. In one month, whatis the maximum amount of video games can Zach buy and still have at least $40 left over tospend on snacks?

Answer 1

The maximum amount of video games Zach can buy is 12.

Explanation:

Zach's allowance is of $100.

He want's to have at least $40 left over to spend on snacks.

So he will have at most 100 - 40 = $60 to spend on videogames and other things.

Each game is bought for $5.

He can buy at most $60 in games. So the most he can buy can be found using a rule of three.

1 game - $5

x games - $60

Applying cross multiplication

5x = 60

x = 60/5

x = 12

The maximum amount of video games Zach can buy is 12.