Dog food costs 9$ per bag and cat food costs 8$ per bag. if billy spent 89$ and purchased 6 bags of dog food, how many bags of cat food did he buy?

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Tyrone Lam

Mathematics

9 August, 14:36

Dog food costs 9$ per bag and cat food costs 8$ per bag. if billy spent 89$ and purchased 6 bags of dog food, how many bags of cat food did he buy?

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Richmond · Answer 1

6 bags of dog food * $9 = 54

$89 total - $54 spent on dog food = $35 spent on cat food

$35 / $8 = 4.375, but you can't have decimals for cat food bags so round down.

= 4 bags of cat food