Question

Bob wants to place twice the amount of orders of food from Franklin’s BBQ for his family reunion. Franklin’s BBQ has a one-time delivery fee of $33, and then charges $12 per pound of beef. He wants to spend no more than $140 on beef. What is the maximum number of pounds of beef Bob can purchase for each order? Write and solve and inequality.

Answer 1

8 Pounds

Explanation:

An equation we can use to solve this will look like this:

33 + (12 × number of pounds of beef)

Now just insert a number into the equation:

33 + (12 × 12) = 177

This is too much money.

Lets try a different number.

33 + (12 × 9) = 141

This is still too much money.

Lets try 8.

33 + (12 × 8) = 129

If Bob buys 8 ponds of beef, then he will spend $129.