Question

A type of fish for your aquarium costs $4 each. You can spend at most $36. How many fish can you buy? Write an inequality to model the problem? Then solve the inequality to find the number of fish.

Answer 1

Answer:

9 fish

Step-by-step explanation:

If each fish costs 4 dollars, and we can spend at most 36 dollars, we can find out that we can buy 9 fish by dividing 36/4, which gives you the answer of 9.

We can model this problem by doing

4x = 36

Divide by 4 on both sides to isolate the x

x = 9

Answer 2

Answer:

4x ≤ 36

x ≤ 9

9 fish maximum