SOLUTION: Jorge Martinez has budgeted $150 to have business cards printed. A card printer charges $11 to set up each job and an additional $6 per box of 100 cards printed. What is the greate

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Question 34870: Jorge Martinez has budgeted $150 to have business cards printed. A card printer charges $11 to set up each job and an additional $6 per box of 100 cards printed. What is the greatest number of cards Mr. Martinez can have printed? <<
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Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
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Jorge Martinez has budgeted $150 to have business cards printed. A card printer charges $11 to set up each job and an additional $6 per box of 100 cards printed. What is the greatest number of cards Mr. Martinez can have printed?
Let the number of cards printed be "x"
Then x/100 is the number of boxes of cards.
Cost for these boxes is 6(x/100)
Total cost is 11+6(x/100)
INEQUALITY:
11+6(x/100)<=150
6(x/100)<=139
6x<= 13900
x<=2316.67
Greatest number is 2316 cards.
Cheers,
stan H.

Answer by wuwei96815(245) About Me  (Show Source):
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The biggest problem with word problems is translating the words into a solvable math problem. Let's try.

$150 - $11 = $139 = amount of money remaining for printing after the inital set-up

$139 divided by $6 = number of 100 card boxes that can be ordered = 23 1/6

Assuming that the printer will not do partial boxes, the total number of cards is 23 boxes x 100 cards/box = 2300 cards

My best guess for the answer is 2300 cards printed with $1 left over, unspent.