Question

Mary wants to buy one large pizza, one medium pizza, and three drinks. The drinks cost $p$ dollars each, the medium pizza costs two times as much as one drink, and the large pizza costs three times as much as one drink. If Mary started with $30$ dollars, how much money would she have left after making all of her purchases?

Answer 1

Answer:

$30-8p$

Step-by-step explanation:

Let p represent cost of each drink.

We have been given that the medium pizza costs two times as much as one drink, so the cost of medium pizza would be $2p$.

We are also told that the large pizza costs three times as much as one drink,  so the cost of la pizza would be $3p$.

We have been given that Mary wants to buy one large pizza, one medium pizza, and three drinks.

Since the cost of one drink is p, so cost of 3 three drinks would be $3p$.

The total cost of one large pizza, one medium pizza, and three drinks would be $2p+3p+3p=8p$

Mary started with $30, so amount left after all of her purchases would be 30 minus total cost of all purchases.

$30-8p$

Therefore, Mary will have $30-8p$ dollars left after making all of her purchases.