Question

(03.05 MC)Maya has $15 to spend. She spent $5.50, including tax, to buy a notebook. She needs to save $7.75, but she wants to buy a snack. If cookies cost $0.25 per package including tax, what inequality would show the maximum number of packages that Maya can buy? Solve your inequality by showing your work and steps.

Answer 1

If Maya only has $15 dollars to spend and she buys a notebook for $5.50 then that leaves her with $9.50 and if she has to save $7.75 then that leaves her with $1.75 and since she wants to buy cookies then you have to figure out how many cookies she can get with $1.75 plus the tax but food doesn't have tax so she can buy 7 packages of cookies since there only 25 cents is right on point at $1.75 I hope I answered your question with all the calculating I had to do and the typing I went through to explain it to you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now could you please give me a thank you and  hit the brain aster button please and thank you so much

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Answer 2

Answer:

7 packages.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent number of cookie packages.

We have been given that Maya has $15 to spend. She spent $5.50, including tax, to buy a notebook.

Amount left after buying notebook would be $15-5.50=9.50$.

As Maya needs to save $7.75, so money left to buy cookies would be $9.50-7.75=1.75$.

We are also told that cost of each cookie package is $0.25. The cost of x packages would be $0.25x$.

The cost of x packages should be less than or equal to 7.75. We can represent this information in an inequality as:

$0.25x\leq 1.75$

$\frac{0.25x}{0.25}\leq \frac{1.75}{0.25}$

$x\leq 7$

Therefore, Maya can buy at-most 7 packages.