Question

Mila is at a flea market. She has $50 in her wallet. She decides that she will spend $15 on jewelry, $20 on a pair of jeans, $5 on a T-shirt, and $10 on something to eat. She likes a one-of-a-kind T-shirt, but the seller is not ready to sell it for less than $8. She thinks of five ways to deal with this situation. Which two choices indicate a trade-off?

Answer 1

The second option, "She will give up on the T-shirt and use the money to buy better jeans. " and the last option, "She will buy the T-shirt for $8 and not order juice at lunch." are the correct choices (100% positive; just took the test and got all answers correct)

Answer 2

Hey Hannah!

So, from starting out with this (real word) problem, we know that this Mila $(only)$has $50 bucks in her wallet.

So, $\left[\begin{array}{ccc}\boxed{50-15-20-5-10}\end{array}\right]$

So, what she could really do, sense this would be business and that she would have to make up her mind in order to make the right choice so that she could leave the store with what she has.

The $(best)$ thing to do in this situation is to really look at what you have in your cart and to see if you really need some things.

For example: Have you ever went to a store and you put alot of stuff in your cart, and when you are about to leave you say, "do I really need this". It's that same in this case, the best thing to do is to see if she could possibly either lay the (t-shirt) down and buy the rest, or ask the dealer if she could make the other items prices lower. Those would be the two.

Hope this helps.
~Jurgen