Question

There are 8 students on the school chess team. They need to raise at least $760 for a field trip. Their advisor says they still need to raise 85% of the funds, and she wants each of them to raise an equal share of the money still needed.

Diego wrote and solved the inequality 8m + 0.85(760)> to find-
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the least amount of money, m, each student on the chess team still needs to raise. He says the solution is m > $14.25
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Describe and correct Diego’s error.

Answer 1

Explanation:

well first lets get 85% of 760 since thats how much tehy still need to raise

85% of 760 is 646

there are 8 kids so what we need to do is 646/8

646/8 is 80.75

I dont even know what diego did