Question

buys candy that costs 8$ per pound. She will spend less than 56$on candy. What are the possible numbers of pounds she will buy? Use for the number of pounds will buy.

Answer 1

x ≤ 7

Explanation:

$56 (her budget) divided by $8 (which is the cost per pound) will equal x. Since we do not know the actual answer of the number of pounds she will buy due to the fact she will spend less than $56, which is also making her open to buying a total of $56. Since the question is asking for the possible numbers of pounds she will buy, we will use the identity for pounds to be x. We don't know the actual amount she will buy so the answer is x ≤ 7. She will buy either less than or exactly 7 pounds of candy.