Question

the booster club raised $102 in their car wash. they want to buy $18 soccer balls for the soccer team. write and solve an inequality to find out how many soccer balls they can buy.

Answer 1

102 divided by 8 equals 5

Answer 2

You raised a total of $102 in the car wash, making that the maximum you could spend. If soccer balls are $18 each, you have to use a variable (s goes with soccer, but you could use any letter) for how many you can buy.

Your equation would be 18s = 102.

Divide by 18 on both sides. 

18s / 18 = s
102 / 18 = 5 2/3

Because the 2/3 of a dollar won't pay for a whole soccer ball, you round down to 5.

Your answer would be s = 5 soccer balls.

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