Question

Mercedes receives a $25 gift card for downloading music and wants to determine how many songs she can purchase. Each downloaded song costs $1.29. Write and solve an inequality to determine m, the number of songs Mercedes can purchase. What is the approximate solution to the inequality? Round to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

for 1 downloaded song ---> cost is 1*1.29 = $1.29
for 2 downloaded songs ---> cost is 2*1.29 = $2.58 and so-on

so clearly, for m songs, it costs 1.29*m to download

this amount must be less than or equal to the amount on the gift card ($25)

set up the appropriate inequality and solve for m. round down to the nearest integer. (if she can only afford "part of" a song she can't count that as 1 song)