SOLUTION: You want to cover a backyard with decorative rock and plant some trees. You need 30 tons of rock to cover the area. If each ton costs $60 and each tree is $84, what is the maximum

Question 327171: You want to cover a backyard with decorative rock and plant some trees. You need 30 tons of rock to cover the area. If each ton costs $60 and each tree is $84, what is the maximum number of trees you can buy with a budget of $2,500? Write an inequality that illustrates the problem and solve. Express your answer as an inequality and explain how you arrived at your answer.

Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
30 tons of rock cost 30(50)=$1800.
You then have $2500-$1800=$700 left to buy trees.

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You can buy at most 8 trees after you bought the rock.
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