Question

5) So far you have a MP3 Player with 0.5 GB of music already stored on the MP3 player and know that each song is about 0.002 GB of memory. What are the possible numbers of additional songs that you can put on the MP3 player if it holds at most 2 GB?​

Answer 1

Answer: Any whole number between 0 and 750, including both endpoints.

One example could be 700 additional songs.

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Explanation:

x = number of additional songs, some nonnegative whole number

1 song takes up 0.002 GB, so x of them take up 0.002x GB of memory.

Add on the 0.5 GB already used to get the expression 0.002x+0.5 to represent the total amount of storage taken up. We want this expression to be 2 or smaller.

$0.002x + 0.5 \le 2\\\\0.002x \le 2-0.5\\\\0.002x \le 1.5\\\\x \le 1.5/0.002\\\\x \le 750$

This says the most songs we can add are 750.

Because x is the number of songs, it doesn't make sense to have x be negative. This means $x \ge 0$ or $0 \le x$ is the case as well.

Combining $0 \le x$ and $x \le 750$ produces the compound inequality $0 \le x \le 750$

The number of additional songs is any whole number between 0 and 750, including both endpoints.

The roster notation of this set could look like this: {0, 1, 2, ..., 748,749,750}

The triple dots indicate "keep this pattern going". That way we don't have to fill in all 751 values which would be a tedious process.

So you can add on something like 700 songs because it's between those endpoints mentioned, but cannot add something like 800 songs.

Answer 2

Answer:

0 - 750 additional songs

Step-by-step explanation:

current: 0.5 mb

remaining: 2-0.5=1.5 mb

each song: 0.002 gb

take remainig amount of space: 1.5 mb and divide by how much space each song takes: 0.002 mb to find out how many songs can fit in 1.5 mb of space

work:

(total amount of storage-used amount of storage)/storage per song

(2.0-0.5)/0.002

= 1.5/0.002

= 750 songs

what are the possible number of additional songs?

anything up until 750.