A bag of chips costs $3.79 including tax. Mr. Connor wants to purchase chips for his class and has a $15 budget. Write an inequality to solve for the number of bags of chips Mr. Connor can purchase with his budget

If you could help me understand.

Question

A bag of chips costs $3.79 including tax. Mr. Connor wants to purchase chips for his class and has a $15 budget. Write an inequality to solve for the number of bags of chips Mr. Connor can purchase with his budget

If you could help me understand.

calculusxy · Answer

$$\large \color{blue}{$3.79x \le $15}$$

We know that bag of chips cost $3.79 and Mr. Connor has a budget of $15. He wishes to purchase a certain number of bags that will be within this budget and not exceed it. Therefore, if we have $\large \color{blue}{x}$ being the unknown number of chips, then we can assume that we need to find out the number of bags that will suffice within $15. That is why we have the inequality symbol of "less than or equal to" or $\le$.

anonymous · Answer

Thank you.