Question

Step 1

a) Suppose you are able to download 1 free song to your tablet daily and each additional download costs $0.59. If your monthly bill is $15.34, how many songs did you download if you downloaded 28 free songs? Write an equation and solve for the unknown variable.
b) Your uncle Jim lives in England, where the current exchange rate is 1.64 US dollars for each British pound. Solve for the amount of your monthly bill, to the nearest hundredth, if you lived in England.
c) If you had an additional 1.65 pounds to download songs, how many more songs could you have downloaded? Write and solve an equation to solve the problem. Describe the step-by-step process you used to solve the problem.

Answer 1

a. 54

b. 9.35

Explanation:

a. First, divide 15.34 by 0.59 to find the number of songs you had to pay for.

15.34/0.59 = 26

then add it to the number of free songs you downloaded

26 + 28 = 54

b. divide 15.34 by 1.64

15.34/1.64 = 9.35

for c I would just multiply 1.65 by the usd exchange rate (1.64) which is 2.10 so you could afford 3 more songs but I don't know what equation exactly you would use or if what I did works.