You are planning to spend no less than $6,000 and no more than $10,000 on your landscaping project.
Suppose you want to cover the backyard with decorative rock and plant some trees as the first phase of the project. You need 30 tons of rock to cover the area. If each ton cost $60 and each tree is $84, with a budget for rock and trees of $2,500 Would 5 trees be a solution to the inequality in part b? Justify your answer.
Woulld 5 trees be a solution to the inequality in part b? Justify your answer.
You have not provided the "part b inequality"
The decorative roack costs $1800, leaving $700 for trees. It seems to me that you have enough to plant up to 8 trees, but not 9 or moree
To determine if 5 trees would be a solution to the inequality in part b, we need to calculate the cost of the trees and compare it to the budget of $2,500.
First, let's calculate the cost of the trees. Each tree costs $84, so 5 trees would cost:
5 trees * $84/tree = $420.
Now, let's compare the cost of the trees to the budget. We have:
Budget = $2,500
Cost of trees = $420
To determine if the cost of the trees is within the budget, we need to see if the cost of the trees is less than or equal to the budget. In other words, we need to check if:
Cost of trees <= Budget
Substituting the values, we have:
$420 <= $2,500
Indeed, the cost of the trees is less than or equal to the budget of $2,500. Therefore, 5 trees would be a solution to the inequality in part b.