Q:

shelly is going shopping at the mall to buy three pairs of shoes. she has a coupon for $2 off per pair of shoes after buying the first pair for full price. shelly is willing to spend $80 to $122 not including tax. if the shoes she purchases are all the same price, what is the least and most amount she can spend per pair.

Accepted Solution

A:
Okay, to start, we can multiply the $2 coupon by two because that is the amount of pairs she is going to by. So it would be $4 off. Now, if all of the shoes she purchased the same price, this is made a little easier. We can simply take $80 and $122 and add it by the $4 discount. Our new numbers would be $84 and $126. Now in order for this to work we would want all the numbers to be the same. We take $84 and divide it by three pairs, to get the values. For the least amount she can spend per pair is $28 and the most amount she can spend per pair is $42.