2019 AMC 8 Problem 1

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1.

Ike and Mike go into a sandwich shop with a total of $30.00\$30.00 to spend. Sandwiches cost $4.50\$4.50 each and soft drinks cost $1.00\$1.00 each. Ike and Mike plan to buy as many sandwiches as they can, and use any remaining money to buy soft drinks. Counting both soft drinks and sandwiches, how many items will they buy?
66
77
88
99
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Answer: D
Concepts:moneyoptimization
Small hint:
Find the greatest whole number of sandwiches first
Big hint:
Spend the remaining money on $1\$1 drinks
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Written solution:
If they buy 66 sandwiches, they would spend 6×4.5=276 \times 4.5 = 27 dollars. This means that they would not be able to buy any more sandwiches.
They would then have 30−27=330 - 27 = 3 dollars left. With this, they could buy 33 sodas. They would therefore buy a total of 6+3=96 + 3 = 9 items.
Thus, the correct answer is D.
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