Problema Solution

Alley earns $37 mowing lawns. at his favorite store, it costs $6.50 to rent a video game, and

$4 to rent movies.

A. Write an equation that gives the amount of money alley has left, b, after renting 1 video game and m movies.

B. how many video games can alley rent if he rents no movies?

Answer provided by our tutors

Money earned = 37

a) money left = b = 37 - 6.5 - 4m

= 30.5 -4m

b) No of video games that can be rented = 37/6.5 = 5.6

So, he can rent 5 video games.