Question

Rory is at the local mall and her favorite type of jeggings are on sale. The jeggings are now

priced at $7 per pair, tax free. She has $27 with her, but she needs to have $6 leftover to
spend on a movie theater ticket.
Which inequality represents how many pairs of jeggings Rory can buy, where / represents
the number of jeggings?

Answer 1

j ≤ 3

Explanation:

Since she has $27 with her and needs a balance if $6, the amount of money she can spend on buying the jeggings will be $27-$6 = $21

This means that she has $21 to spend on buying the jeggins

From the question, one jeggings cost $7, so the maximum number of jeggings she can buy is 21/7 = 3

So the inequality that represents this will be;

j ≤ 3

This is because she can decide to buy less than 3, but never can she buy more than 3 because of her budgetary constraints