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 your answer
11x <= 60
x <= 5.4
so, 5 CD's, which will cost $55
6 would cost $66, which is too much.
plz help i do not understand ?
To solve this problem, we can set up an inequality to determine the maximum number of CDs you can buy.
Let x represent the number of CDs you can buy. Since the CDs are $11.00 each, the total cost of x CDs would be 11x dollars.
But since you have only $60.00 in your wallet, the maximum amount you can spend on CDs is $60.00. Therefore, we can write the inequality:
11x ≤ 60
To solve this inequality, divide both sides by 11:
x ≤ 60/11
Now we can simplify the right side:
x ≤ 5.45
Since you cannot buy a fraction of a CD, you should round down to the nearest whole number. Therefore, the maximum number of CDs you can buy is 5.
In summary, you can buy a maximum of 5 CDs with $60.00 in your wallet when each CD costs $11.00.
60 > 11
60/11= 5.4
X=5.4