Jason has $500 in his savings account. Jason plans to spend $35 each week on entertainment. How many weeks will he be able to spend money on entertainment if he used up to all of his savings.

Question

which one

Answer 1

The first step in solving this is to write an equation.

$500 is the total amount of money Jason has to spend, so this must be on one side of the inequality sign.

I know I need the less than or equal to sign because Jason can spend $500 or less.

$35 per week is the amount of money he spends. The per week tells me that we need to multiply.

Looking at the answers we see that w is the variable they are using to represent the number of weeks.

Now for our equation.

35w ≤ 500

Now we just need to solve by dividing both sides by 35.

We get w ≤ 14.23 which rounds to 14.

If he spends 14 weeks spending $35, he will spend a total of $490.

The answer is w ≤ 14.