Zachary and his children went to the grocery store and will buy bananas and peaches. Each Banana cost $0.50 and each peach cost $1.50. Zachary has a total of $8 to spend on bananas and peaches.

Question

Write an inequality that would represent the possible values for the number of bananas purchased,b, and the number of peaches purchased,p.

Answer 1

B = number of bananas

P = number of peaches

0.5 * B = cost of number of bananas purchased

1.5 * P = cost of number of peaches purchased

total amount spent on bananas or peaches cannot exceed $8:

0.5*B < 8

1.5*P < 8