Propane costs $3.50 per hundred pounds,
and there is a $6 monthly delivery fee.
A family has budgeted $85 for their propane this month.
Let 'x' hundreds of pounds can the family use without going over budget
Here family has budgeted $85 for their propane.
So the cost for Propane = $ 3.5x
One month delivery fee $6
Therefore cost + delivery charge not exceed $85
So 3.5x + 6 ≤ 85
3.5x=85-6 =79
x = 22.57
Therefore 22 hundreds of pounds can the family use without going over budget
Maybe measure the calculator with the yardstick?
We can factorize the quadratic as

and expand the right side to get


Then we find
