Harper has $15.00 to spend at the grocery store. She is going to buy bags of fruit that cost $4.75 each and one box of crackers
that cost $3.50. Right and solve an inequality that models this situation and could be used to determine the maximum number of bags of fruit, b, Harpar can buy.
Let x represent the maximum number of bags of fruit that Harper can buy.
She is going to buy bags of fruit that cost $4.75 each and one box of crackers that cost $3.50. This means that the total cost of x bags of fruit and one box of crackers would be
4.75x + 3.5
If Harper has $15.00 to spend at the grocery store, it means that
4.75x + 3.5 = 15
4.75x = 15 - 3.5 = 11.5
x = 11.5/4.75
x = 2.42
Therefore, the maximum number of bags of fruit that Harper can buy is 2 because the number of bags must be whole numbers.
