Question

I cannot spend more than \[\$35\] at the school Book Fair. Posters are \[\$5\]. How many books could I buy if they are \[\$6.50\] each and I want to buy one poster?

Answer 1

Hint: In order to find solution to this problem, we will have to first convert this word problem into mathematical format and then after converting into mathematical form that is breaking down into parts and with that after we have all things we require, we will have to complete calculation and then we will get our final answer.

Complete step by step solution:
As we know, we have our problem as a word problem, so we will first convert it into a mathematical problem.
Therefore, breaking down our problem into parts, we get:
We can buy one poster for \[\$5\]
We cannot spend more than \[\$35\]
Books cost \[\$6.50\] each
We can buy $4$ books which will cost us \[\$26\]
Which is, \[\$6.5 \times 4=\$26\]
Also, we can buy one poster for $\$5$, which is \[\$5 \times 1=\$5\].
On addition, our total expenses will be:
That is \[\$26\] for books and $\$5$ for poster will be:
$\Rightarrow 26+5=31$
Therefore, Total expenses \[=\$31\]

Therefore, to sum up everything that has been stated so far, the total of our spending will be \[\$31\]. We will still have \[\$4\] remaining because we cannot spend more than $\$35$.

Note: A word problem is a few sentences describing a 'real-life' scenario, where a problem needs to be solved in a way of a mathematical calculation.
To solve word problems, we have to read it well. One reason we struggle is because they have trouble with reading in general and not understanding the problem. To turn a word problem into a number sentence, we need to understand the language and concepts of math first, then we can easily solve any word problem.