Question 744779: Tom wants to buy some candy bar that magazine for a trip. He has decided to buy 3 times as many candy bars as magazines. Each candy bar costs $0.70 and each h magazine costs $2.50. How many of each item can he buy if he has $20 to spend.
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Answer by MathTherapy(10556)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Tom wants to buy some candy bar that magazine for a trip. He has decided to buy 3 times as many candy bars as magazines. Each candy bar costs $0.70 and each h magazine costs $2.50. How many of each item can he buy if he has $20 to spend.
Thank you for ur time, please respond as soon as possible, thank you.
Let the amount of magazines he can buy be M
Then the amount of candy bars he can buy = 3M
Total cost of magazines = 2.5M, and total cost of candy bars = .7(3M), or 2.1M
Since he has $20 to spend, then we can say that:  -----
Amount of magazines he can buy, or  -----  ≈ 
If he buys 4 magazines, then he can buy 3M, or 3(4), or  candy bars.
$1.60 would be left over though, so he can get more candy bars.
You can do the check!!
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