A certain species of fish costs $2.99 each. You can spend no more than $40. How many of this type of fish can you buy for your aquarium?
You can buy no more than ___ fish.
(Type a whole number.)
You can buy no more than 13 fish.
To determine the number of fish you can buy, divide the total amount you can spend ($40) by the cost per fish ($2.99).
$40 / $2.99 ≈ 13.38
Since you can't buy a fraction of a fish, you would be able to buy a maximum of 13 fish.
To determine the number of fish you can buy for your aquarium, you need to divide the total amount of money you have available by the cost of each fish.
In this case, the cost of each fish is $2.99, and you have $40 to spend.
To calculate the number of fish, divide $40 by $2.99:
Number of fish = $40 / $2.99
To get the exact result, you should perform the calculation:
Number of fish ≈ 13.378
However, since you can only buy whole fish, you need to round down to the nearest whole number:
Number of fish = 13
So, you can buy no more than 13 fish for your aquarium.