Question

A boy needs to grill 17 pounds of meat for a cookout. Determine the maximum cost per pound that he can afford, if he wants to spend at most $50 on this meat purchase?

Answer 1

Solution:

Let us denote by x the cost per pound. According to the problem, the inequality that describes the situation is:

$17x\leq50$

then solving for x, we get:

$x\leq\frac{50}{17}\text{ = 2.94}$

so that, we can conclude that the maximum cost per pound that he can afford is 2.94.