Samuel and Jason are brothers. They sell cans to a recycling center that pays $0.40 per pound of cans. The table shows the number of pounds of cans that Samuel and Jason sold for several days.
Day Samuel's cans
(pounds) Jason's cans
(pounds)
Monday 21.2 12.5
Tuesday 16.8 12.3
Wednesday 11.5 8.1
Jason wants to use his earnings from Monday and Tuesday for online movie rentals. The movies cost $2.48 each to rent. How many movies can Jason rent?
.40(12.5+12.3) = 2.48x
Solve for x.
Samuel and Jason are brothers. They sell cans to a recycling center that pays $0.40 per pound of cans. The table shows the number of pounds of cans that Samuel and Jason sold for several days.
Day Samuel's cans
(pounds) Jason's cans
(pounds)
Monday 14.2 17.7
Tuesday 11.8 16.7
Wednesday 11.5 8.1
Jason wants to use his earnings from Monday and Tuesday for online movie rentals. The movies cost $3.44 each to rent. How many movies can Jason rent?
Jason can rent
movies.
To find out how many movies Jason can rent, we first need to calculate how much money he earned from selling cans on Monday and Tuesday.
To do this, we'll multiply the pounds of cans sold by the price per pound paid by the recycling center.
For Monday:
Jason sold 12.5 pounds of cans.
The price per pound is $0.40.
So, the money earned on Monday is: 12.5 pounds * $0.40/pound = $5.00.
For Tuesday:
Jason sold 12.3 pounds of cans.
The price per pound is $0.40.
So, the money earned on Tuesday is: 12.3 pounds * $0.40/pound = $4.92.
Now, let's calculate the total earning by adding the money earned on Monday and Tuesday:
Total earnings = $5.00 + $4.92 = $9.92.
To find out how many movies Jason can rent, we'll divide the total earnings by the cost of a movie rental:
Number of movies = Total earnings / Cost per movie rental
Number of movies = $9.92 / $2.48 = 4.
Therefore, Jason can rent 4 movies with his earnings from Monday and Tuesday.