Question

Elliot collects miniature toy cars. He wants to fill 4 display cases.each display case holds 15 cars. He has 28 cars now, and he is able to buy 3 more every month with the money he saves from his allowance. How many more months will it be until elliot has enough cars to fill all 4 display cases?

Answer 1

Elliot will take 10 more months to have enough cars to fill all 4 display cases.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many more months it will be until Elliot has enough cars to fill all 4 display cases, we need to calculate the total number of cars needed and compare it to the number of cars Elliot currently has. Each display case holds 15 cars, and Elliot wants to fill 4 display cases, so the total number of cars needed is 15 cars x 4 display cases = 60 cars. Elliot currently has 28 cars.

Elliot is able to buy 3 more cars every month. To calculate how many more months it will take for him to reach 60 cars, we can subtract the number of cars he currently has from the total number of cars needed, and then divide the result by the number of cars he can buy each month: (60 cars - 28 cars) / 3 cars per month = 10 months.

Therefore, it will take Elliot 10 more months to have enough cars to fill all 4 display cases.

Answer 2

Elliot has to wait 11 months before he has enough cars

Step-by-step explanation:

Elliot has 4 display cases with each case being able to hold 15 cars. Thus we know

total # of cars Elliot can place in his display case = 4 * 15 = 60 cars

From this, we can figure out how many more cars Elliot needs by subtracting the amount of cars he already has

# of cars Elliot needs = 60 - 28 = 32 cars

Now to find the number of months Elliot needs, we divide by how many he can buy each month

# of months Elliot needs to save up for = 32 / 3 = 10 2/3

Assuming Elliot does not get his allowance until the end of the month, we will have to round the number of months up to the nearest integer, 11