Laura is the fund-raising manager for a local charity. she is ordering caps for an upcoming charity walk. the company that makes the caps charges $6 per cap plus a $25 shipping fee. laura has a budget of $1,000. what is the greatest number of caps she can buy?

162 caps.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x be the number of caps.

We have been given that cost of one cap is $6, so cost of x caps will be equal to 6x.

We are also told that the company charges an amount of $25 for shipping, so total cost of buying x caps will be equal to the cost of x caps plus shipping charges ().

Since Laura has a budget of $1,000, so cost of x caps will be less than or equal to 1,000. We can represent this information in an equation as:

Now let us solve for x.

Let us divide both sides of our inequality by 6.

Since we can not buy 0.5 of a cap, so the greatest number of caps Laura can buy is 162 caps.

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