Question

2. Quan plans to spend less than $80 for buying groceries. He plans to spend $68.25 on food and spend the rest on juice. Each juice carton costs $3. He is curious how many juice cartons he can purchase before he runs out of money.

(a) Use x to represent the number of juice cartons Quan can purchase and write an inequality that can be used to solve for x.

(b) Solve the inequality. Use the solution to determine the number of juice cartons Quan can purchase.
Show your work.

Answer 1

Y=3X+68.25

80=3X+68.25
Subtract 68.25 from both sides
11.75=3X

Divide

11.75/3=3.91
He can't buy a portion of a juice but he doesn't have enough to buy 4

So he can afford 3 juice cartons