SOLUTION: Johnnie likes to buy slices of pizza in the cafeteria for lunch for $4.75. Amy
prefers to buy hamburgers for lunch, which cost $5.55 each. Between the two of
them, Johnnie and Am
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Question 1204603: Johnnie likes to buy slices of pizza in the cafeteria for lunch for $4.75. Amy
prefers to buy hamburgers for lunch, which cost $5.55 each. Between the two of
them, Johnnie and Amy have $38.50 and they are not allowed to buy more than
7 lunches. How many hamburgers and slices of pizza can they buy?
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, greenestamps:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39625) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Pizza Slice, 4.75 dollars
Hamburger, 5.55 dollars
Max. money to spend, 38.5 dollars
Max. foods or lunches to buy , 7
p and h, number of pizza slices and hamburgers
Understand that p and h must be whole numbers, neither less than 0.
Answer by greenestamps(13203) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
No formal algebra is needed for this problem; the requirements are not very restrictive.
Simple arithmetic shows that 7 hamburgers cost $38.85, which is just a bit more than the $38.50 they have to spend.
Then, since hamburgers cost more than slices of pizza....
ANSWER: they can buy ANY combination of 7 or fewer items EXCEPT 7 hamburgers.
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