l a i l a is laying a path down for a new driveway the store has three types of paper stones that will work for her space she needs to know which paper is the best price paper one cost $1.49 each and she will need twice as many as paper too and have as many as paper 3 paper 2 cost 250 East 0.75 which paper will be the Best buy your answer should be a number
To determine which paper will be the best buy, we need to compare the prices of the three papers.
Let's assign variable names to the quantities of each paper:
Let x = quantity of paper 1
Then paper 2 will be 2x (twice as many as paper 1)
And paper 3 will be x (same quantity as paper 2)
The cost of paper 1 is $1.49 each, so the total cost of paper 1 is 1.49x.
The cost of paper 2 is $2.50 each, so the total cost of paper 2 is 2.50(2x) = 5x.
The cost of paper 3 is $0.75 each, so the total cost of paper 3 is 0.75(x).
To find the best buy, we need to compare the total costs of each paper. We can set up the following inequality:
1.49x < 5x < 0.75x
Simplifying the inequality:
1.49x < 5x < 0.75x
0 < 3.5x < 0.75x
Since we are looking for the best price, the smallest value works here. Therefore, the best buy is paper 3 (x).