SOLUTION: You are planning to spend no less than $6,000 and no more than $10,000 on
your landscaping project
You need 30 tons of rock to cover the area. If each ton costs $60 and each tre
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Question 373573: You are planning to spend no less than $6,000 and no more than $10,000 on
your landscaping project
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 mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
30 t rock @ $60 /t
tree= $84 each
Let trees bought be x
..
cost of rock = 30*60 = 1800
..
1800+84x < 2500
-1800 -1800
84x<2500-1800
84x<700
/84
x<700/84
x < 8.33 trees
x=8.3trees ( you can't buy a fraction of a tree)
Maximum 8 trees
..
m.ananth@hotmail.ca
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