Ryan has $25 to spend on a bouquet of flowers for Valentine's Day! He wants the bouquet to have 4 roses. Roses cost $2.95. He also wants carnations in the bouquet carnations cots $1.25 each. Ryan says he can buy 12 carnations with the money he has. Is Ryan correct?

In this question, we want to evaluate the validity of correctness of a claim made by Ryan who is purchasing some flowers for valentine and has a budgeted amount of money to spend.

Firstly, we identify the total amount of money he has to spend. This is $25. Now we look at his choice. He wants the bouquet to have four roses.

We proceed to calculate the cost of having four roses in his bouquet. Since one rose cost $2.95, then four roses will cost a total of $2.95 * 4 = $11.8

Now, the left over amount he has to spend on carnations would be the total minus the amount he had spent on buying 4 roses. That would be $25-$11.8 = $13.2

What is left now to completely answer this question is to see if $13.2 would be enough for the 12 carnations he had proposed he is going to buy. To check this, we simply divide the left over amount by the amount that a carnation cost. From the question, we can see that a Carnation cost $1.25, thus the number of carnations that is buy-able with $13.2 is $13.2/$1.25 = 10.56 and that is approximately equal to 11.

Thus we can see that Ryan is not correct

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Answer: Ryan IS NOT correct. He would have to settle for fewer carnations.

Step-by-step explanation:

Extracting the key information from the question:-

*** Ryan has $25 which he intends spending on a bouquet of flowers.

*** The bouquet must contain 4 roses which costs $2.95 each.

*** He also intends purchasing carnations as part of the bouquet. It costs $1.25 to purchase one.

*** If he wants 12 carnations, we are required to find out if he has enough money to purchase them.

Since he has $25 in his possession for the bouquet of flowers which will contain 4 roses and 12 carnations; if one rose flower costs $2.95, the cost of roses alone will be:-

1 rose --------- $2.95

4 roses -------- $?

= (4/1) × 2.95

= $11.8

So, he must spend $11.8 on roses alone for his bouquet if he intends purchasing four of them.

Then, if he wants 12 carnations in the bouquet and a single carnation costs $1.25, then the 12 carnations he intends adding to the bouquet will cost:

1 carnation ------ $1.25

12 carnations ------ $?

= (12/1) × 1.25

= $15

Then, adding the prices of the 4 roses and 12 carnations will give:-

$11.8 + $15

= $26.80¢

So, if Ryan has only $25 in his possession, then he cannot afford 4 roses and 12 carnations which costs a total of $26.80. He may have to make do with fewer carnations for his bouquet.