Annabeth has $29.00 to spend at the sporting goods store. She buys a T-shirt that costs $15.32. She also wants to buy a soccer ball for $12.87, a baseball cap for $8.39, a set of shin guards for $14.98, or a water bottle for $5.93. Use the equation $15.32 + c = $29.00, where c is the item's cost, to find the most expensive item Annabeth can buy.

The most expensive she can buy is the soccerball

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

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Using , what is the most expensive she can buy?

Subtract $15.32 from both sides

This means that she can not afford items that cost more than $13.68

i.e. the shin guards which costs $14.98

The items she can afford and their prices are:

The most expensive of them all is:

sinn is the total amount of students now and m were the students before, you subtract them both (n-m) and divide that by m. then, since to get a percentage from a fraction you have to multiply by 100, your answer should look like this: n-m/m*100

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