Soft drinks cost $1.89 and refills cost $0.25 each. With $3.80 to spend on the soft drink and refills, what is the maximum numbe
r of refills that you can get? Refills (Hint: Do not answer with a fraction because you can not get a partial refill. Your answer should be an integer). 2 Game Bonus Solve equations with inequalities word problems
This is because the initial price was 1.89$ for the drink, then for every refill, it was a quarter extra. To solve for x we start by subtracting 1.89 from both sides.
So now we divide by 0.25 or multiply by 4 and we get
But x cannot be a fraction. So we round this to the least integer, or 7