Julie is running the concession stand for a swim team. She needs to buy supplies for the next swim meet. She has one item left to buy and she has 55 dollars left to spend. She wants to purchase cartons of apple juice and each one costs $3.75. Write an inequality that models the problem and then find how many cartons of apple juice she can purchase with the money she has to spend. Assume she cannot purchase a fraction of a carton?

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19 February, 02:57

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Karissa Moreno · Answer 1

If she has 55 dollars and wants to buy 3.75 dollar apple juice, you would do 55/3.75=14.666666666 forever so you could buy 14 cartons of apple juice.