Question

Rogelio paints watercolors. He got a \($100$gift card to the art supply store and wants to use it to buy $12\text{'}\text{'}\times 16\text{'}\text{'}$ canvases. Each canvas costs \)$10.99$. What is the maximum number of canvases he can buy with his gift card?

Short answer

He can buy $9$canvases.

Step-by-step solution

Step 1. Given information

Total amount a person have$=\$100$

Cost of each canvas$=10.99$

We need to find how many canvas he can bring with the total amount of money he has.

Step 2. Solving the in equality

Let $m$be the number of canvas he can bring.

Therefore,

According to the question,

$$\begin{gathered} 10.99m\le 100 \\ m\le \frac{100}{10.99} \\ m\le 9.099 \end{gathered}$$