Your local garden shop has plants on sale for $1.50 each. You are planning a vegetable garden. You have $20 to spend on tomato plants.

A. Write an inequality to find the greatest number of plants p you can buy.

B. What is the greatest number of plants you can buy? Make sure to show all of your work in solving for full credit.

Question

Your local garden shop has plants on sale for $1.50 each.  You are planning a vegetable garden.  You have $20 to spend on tomato plants.
 
A.  Write an inequality to find the greatest number of plants p you can buy. 
 
B.  What is the greatest number of plants you can buy?  Make sure to show all of your work in solving for full credit.

welshfella · Answer

1.5x os the cost of x plants
this has to be lees or equal to20 dollars.