The soccer coach gave Brandon $16 to buy juice boxes from the grocery store. The juice boxes come in pack of 16 and cost $1.75 per pack. Alex was given $21 to buy almonds at the grocery store. Almonds are sold in cans of 200 and cost $2.59 per can.

Brandon buys as many cases of juice boxes as he can afford. Alex buys as many cans of almonds as he can afford.

How many complete snack bags can they make? Explain or show your thinking.

Brandon has $16 maximum to spend. 16 juices come in a pack for $1.75 per pack, so 16 divided by $1.75 ≈ 9. We want to see how many of those 9 packs of 16 juices we can get into the snack bags, so we need to multiply 16 x 9 = 144 juices.

Alex has $21 maximum to spend. 200 almonds come in a can for $2.59 per pack, so 21 divided by $2.59 ≈ 8. We want to see how many of those 8 cans of 200 almonds we can get into the snack bags, so we need to multiply 200 x 8 = 1600 almonds.

This piece of information was omitted from the original question:

[Brandon and Alex are making snack bags for their soccer club. Each soccer player will get a snack bag that will have 2 juice boxes and 25 almonds.]

Based on this omission, only 2 juice boxes can fit in a snack bag and only 25 almonds respectively. Thus, we divide.

144/2 = 72 juices

1600/25 = 64 almonds

Therefore, there would be 64 complete snack bags that can hold 2 juices and 25 almonds without overflow.