Question

you are buying a new printer and a new scanner for your computer and you cannot spend over $150. The printer you want costs $80. Write an inequality that describes the most that you can spend on the scanner and still stay within your budget. If you can buy a scanner that costs $75 will you remain within your budget?

Answer 1

It is given in the question that

You are buying a new printer and a new scanner for your computer and you cannot spend over $150. The printer you want costs $80.

Let the price of scanner be $ x .

So we have

$x+ 80\leq 150$

Subtracting 80 from both sides

$x\leq 70$

It means , the price should be not more then $70 .

Therefore in case, the price of scanner is $75, then you will not remain within your budget .