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You have $60.00 in your wallet and want to buy some new CDs. If the CDs are $11.00 each, What number of CDs, x, can you buy? Write and solve an inequality. Then explain you answer.

Please help me I have no Idea :/

11x <= 60

x<=60/11
since fractional CDs are not very useful
x <= 5
I can buy 1,2,3,4 or 5 but not 6

I got 5.4545455455

So I have to divide 11 by 60?

yes, but what are you going to use 0.454545....

of a CD for?

Nothing, so Do I round it to just 5?

and what is a inequality??????

I told you above

you can buy 1,2,3,4 or 5 but not 6
any positive whole number less than or equal to 5

equality wold be x = 5

inequality would be x < or = 5
which we write x </= 5
<5 means less than

Did you know?

Did you know that inequalities are powerful tools in mathematics to solve everyday problems? In this case, let's use an inequality to determine the number of CDs you can buy with $60.00 in your wallet, assuming that each CD costs $11.00. To solve this problem, we can set up the following inequality: 11x ≤ 60 Here, 'x' represents the number of CDs you can buy, and '≤' states that the cost of CDs should not exceed $60. We can now solve this inequality to find the answer. By dividing both sides of the inequality by 11, we get: x ≤ 5.45 Since the number of CDs must be a whole number, we can conclude that you can buy a maximum of 5 CDs with $60.00 in your wallet. In summary, when CDs are priced at $11.00 each and you have $60.00, you can purchase a maximum of 5 CDs. Remember, inequalities help us understand the limits and constraints of a situation.