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.

the largest number of the four options is 1.8 x 10-2

you have it in scientific notation.

1.80 x 10-6   = 0.00000180

1.80 x 10-4   = 0.000180 (bigger, or "less small", than the former one)

so

1.8 x 10-2       = 0.0180. as you see. the "less small", or the biggest one of them all.

as you have negative exponent, it means you are dividing 1.8 by 100 (i.e. moving the dot towards left, two times).

if you had positive exponent for the scientific notation, power of tenths, you would be multiplying times 100 (moving the dot towards right) as below:

1.8 x (10)2 = 180

so. if you have negative exponent in scientific notation, move the dot toward left. if it is positive, toward right as many times the exponent tells you.

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