SOLUTION: Dora wants to buy pasta to donate to the school food drive. The average box of pasta costs $1.25 and she needs to purchase a box to put pasta in for $4. Dora only has $15 to spen

Question 1167834: Dora wants to buy pasta to donate to the school food drive. The average box of pasta costs $1.25 and she needs to purchase a box to put pasta in for $4. Dora only has $15 to spend. How many boxes of pasta can she buy? Write and solve an inequality for this situation.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
she can spend on pasta.

You wanted an inequality? She can buy less than that number of packages of pasta if she wants.

Best answer: 8 packages of pasta.
Why? because 8.8 nonwhole. Not enough money left to buy fully 9 packages of pasta, but enough for 8.
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