Question

Jaida has $200 to spend on flowers for a school celebration. She decides that the only flowers that she wants to buy are roses and carnations. Roses cost $1.45 each and carnations cost $0.65 each. Jaida buys enough roses so that each of the 75 people attending the event can take home at least one rose. Write an inequality to represent the cost constraint.

Answer 1

Answer:

$1.45x+0.65y\leq 200$

Here, $x$ denotes the number of roses used for a school celebration and $y$ denotes the number of carnations used for a school celebration.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let $x$ denotes the number of roses used for a school celebration and $y$ denotes the number of carnations used for a school celebration.

Cost of 1 rose = $1.45

Cost of $x$ roses = $\ 1.45x$

Cost of 1 carnation = $0.65

Cost of $y$ roses = $\ 0.65y$

Total cost spend on flowers = $1.45x+0.65y$

Total amount with Jaida = $200

So,

the inequality to represent the cost constraint is $1.45x+0.65y\leq 200$