SOLUTION: you have 50$ to spend on pretzels and juice drinks for a school dance. A box of pretzels costs $3.50, and a package of juice drinks costs $5.00. write an equation in standard form

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Question 881269: you have 50$ to spend on pretzels and juice drinks for a school dance. A box of pretzels costs $3.50, and a package of juice drinks costs $5.00. write an equation in standard form that models the possible combinations of boxes of pretzels and packages of juice drinks that you can buy. what is the greatest number of boxes of pretzels you can buy? explain
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Whole numbers, only.

x for juice, y for pretzels (think praYtzels) along with the prices gives
5x%2B3.5y%3C=50, meaning you cannot spend more than 50 dollars. The left member is the cost for buying juice and pretzels.

Check for x values 0, 1, 2, 3, ... and see for which values you find whole numbers for y. No negative values allowed. If y becomes negative, then you went too far with the x.