Question

Marco says mom has sent him to the store to buy apples and oranges she gives Marco instructions to buy 4 pounds of apples and 4 as many pounds of oranges as possible he also has to spend exactly $9.11 of 1 pound of apples cost $1.29 and 1 lb of oranges cost 79 cents how many pounds of oranges will Marcos be able to buy use the equation below to find your answer $1.29 (4) +0.79x=9.11

Answer 1

To find how many pounds of oranges Marco can buy we need to solve the equation given:

$\begin{gathered} 1.29(4)+0.79x=9.11 \\ 5.16+0.79x=9.11 \\ 0.79x=9.11-5.16 \\ \text{0}.79x=3.95 \\ x=\frac{3.95}{0.79} \\ x=5 \end{gathered}$

Therefore Marco bought 5 pounds of oranges.