Harper has $15.00 to spend at the grocery store. She is going to buy bags of fruit that cost $4.75 each and one box of crackers that costs $3.50.

Write and solve an inequality that models this situation and could be used to determine the maximum number of bags of fruit, b, Harper can buy.

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Aiyana Moss

8 February, 23:11

Harper has $15.00 to spend at the grocery store. She is going to buy bags of fruit that cost $4.75 each and one box of crackers that costs $3.50.

Write and solve an inequality that models this situation and could be used to determine the maximum number of bags of fruit, b, Harper can buy.

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Emma · Answer 1

Since harper has only %15 that is the most she can spend, therefore we would have 15> or = 4.75b+3.5c. the best way to solve this would be to divide 15 by 4.75, then round down to the nearest whole number. if you do this, you get 3 bags of fruit.

Harper has $15.00 to spend at the grocery store. She is going to buy bags of fruit that cost $4.75 each and one box of crackers that costs $3.50.Write and solve an inequality that models this situation and could be used to determine the maximum number of bags of fruit, b, Harper can buy.

Harper has $15.00 to spend at the grocery store. She is going to buy bags of fruit that cost $4.75 each and one box of crackers that costs $3.50.

Write and solve an inequality that models this situation and could be used to determine the maximum number of bags of fruit, b, Harper can buy.