Question

Fred has $200. He wants to purchase a gym bag for $26 and as many pair of shoes as he can. Each pair of shoes is $45. What is the maximum number of pairs of shoes he can

purchase in addition to the gym bag?

Answer 1

3 shoes

Explanation:

You can set up an equation to solve this question like this:

200=45s+26

174=45s

174/45=s

s=3.867

You can't have a part of a shoe, so you have to round down to get 3 shoes

Answer 2

3

Explanation:

In order to get the answer to this question you subtract in till you can no longer subtract after subtracting the cost of the bag.

What we do know:

`M=200`

`B=26`

`S=45`

`200-26=174`

`174-45=129`

`129-45=84`

`84-45=39`

`S=3`

Hope this helps