Apack of paper costs $3.75 including tax. mr. cooper wants to purchase packs of paper for his class and has a $20 budget. write an inequality to solve for the number of packs of paper mr. cooper can purchase with his budget.

3.75p<=20

divide by 3.75

p < 5 1/3

he can purchase 5 packs of paper

5 packs of paper.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x be the number of packs of paper.

We have been given that a pack of paper costs $3.75 including tax. The price of x paper packs would be .

Since Mr. Cooper has a $20 budget, so the cost of x paper pack should be lees than or equal to 20.

We can represent this information in an inequality as:

Since we can purchase whole number of paper packs, therefore, Mr. Cooper can purchase 5 packs of paper with his budget.