Question

EsperJoe buys candy that costs $6 per pound. He will spend at most 72 on candy, What are the possible numbers of pounds he will buy?Use p for the number of pounds Joe will buy.Write your answer as an inequality solved for p.

Answer 1

Let p be the number of pounds of candy Joe will buy, since he will spend at most $72 on candy, and each pound has a cors of $6 we get:

$p\times6\le72.$

Dividing by 6 the above inequality we get:

$\begin{gathered} \frac{p\times6}{6}\le\frac{72}{6}, \\ p\le12. \end{gathered}$

Answer:

$p\le12.$