Question

Makayla has $8 to buy tickets at the school fair. Each ticket costs @1.5. Which inequality best represents how many tickets she can buy?
n=number of tickets

a. n<=5 b. n<8 c. n<=6 d. n<5

Answer 1

Answer:

$n\le 5$

Step-by-step explanation:

Let n be the number of tickets Makaya has to buy.

If the cost of one ticket is $1.5, then the cost of n tickets is $1.5n.

Makayla has $8 to buy tickets at the school fair, thus

$1.5n\le 8\\ \\n\le \dfrac{8}{1.5}\\ \\n\le \dfrac{80}{15}\\ \\n\le \dfrac{16}{3}\\ \\n\le 5\dfrac{2}{3}$

The maximum number of tickets Makaya can buy is 5, so

$n\le 5$