SOLUTION: Hi At a sale for every 2 chairs purchased a discount of $15 is given for the third chair purchased. The usual price of a chair is $68 . If Mr Kumar has $1099 what is the greatest

Question 1207549: Hi
At a sale for every 2 chairs purchased a discount of $15 is given for the third chair purchased. The usual price of a chair is $68 . If Mr Kumar has $1099 what is the greatest number of chairs that he can buy.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
looking at groups of three chairs discounting to one of them; x number of these groupings.

Expect about five of these groups of three to work.

-------------the cost for 15 chairs.
---------cost for 16 chairs.
---------cost for chairs
Buy no more than that.
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