Basket gift 11111

Question

You and two friends are making a gift basket. You want to keep the cost below $15 per person. Write and solve an inequality that represents the total cost.

Answer 1

Let's pretend that X stands for the total cost of the gift basket.

The total of the gift basket would be divided by 3 because their are three people making it.

If I divide the total cost of the gift basket by 3 I would get how much each person would pay.

You want to pay less than 15.

The equation would be

X < 15

3

This means that the total cost of the gift basket divided by how many people are paying needs to equal to less than 15 dollars.

In order for this to happen, the total cost could not be more than 45. (15 x 3=45)

So X < $45