Question

At a flower shop, a bouquet of 5 roses costs $5 and a bouquet of 9 roses costs $8. How much money will you need to buy 77 roses?​

Answer 1

Answer:

8 bouquet of 9 roses

1  bouquet of 5 roses

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

bouquet of 5 roses costs $5

bouquet of 9 roses costs $8

need to buy 77 roses

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Compare price of both bouquet we get bouquet of 9 roses is cheaper than bouquet of 5 roses. Therefore we will buy as many bouquet of 9 roses as possible and rest we will buy bouquet of 5 roses.

Now,

In 9's table number less than 77 is = 9 x 8 = 72

so we can buy 8 bouquet of 9 roses

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Now remaining roses are = 77 - 72 = 5

we can buy 1  bouquet of 5 roses

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