Question

raul plans to spend no more than $78.00 on two shirts and a pair of jeans he bought the two shirts for $19.89 each how much can he spend on the jeans write an inequality

Answer 1

Raul can spend not more than $ 38.22 on the pair of jeans

Solution:

Raul plans to spend no more than $78.00 on two shirts and a pair of jeans

He bought the two shirts for $19.89 each

Therefore,

cost of 2 shirts = 19.89 x 2 = $ 39.78

Let "x" be the cost of pair of jeans

Then we frame a inequality as:

cost of 2 shirts + cost of pair of jeans $\leq$ 78

$39.78 + x\leq 78$

Here we have used "less than or equal to" symbol, because he spend no more than $ 78

Solve the inequality for "x"

$39.78 + x\leq 78\\\\Subtract\ 39.78\ from\ both\ sides\\\\x\leq 78-39.78\\\\x\leq 38.22$

Thus, he can spend not more than $ 38.22 on the pair of jeans