Harold lives on Doritos and seafood salads. The price of Doritos is 1 dollar per bag and the price of seafood salads is 2 dollars each. Harold allows himself to spend no more than 11 dollars a day on food. He also restricts his consumption to 6,500 calories per day. There are 1,500 calories in a bag of Doritos and 500 calories in a seafood salad. If he spends his entire money budget each day and consumes no more calories than his calo-rie limit, he can consume up to   a. 5 bag of Doritos per day but no more.   b. 1 bag of Doritos per day but no more.   c. 4 bag of seafood salad per day but no more.   d. 3 bag of Doritos per day but n

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Harold lives on Doritos and seafood salads. The price of Doritos is 1 dollar per bag and the price of seafood salads is 2 dollars each. Harold allows himself to spend no more than 11 dollars a day on food. He also restricts his consumption to 6,500 calories per day. There are 1,500 calories in a bag of Doritos and 500 calories in a seafood salad. If he spends his entire money budget each day and consumes no more calories than his calo-rie limit, he can consume up to

  a.

5 bag of Doritos per day but no more.

  b.

1 bag of Doritos per day but no more.

  c.

4 bag of seafood salad per day but no more.

  d.

3 bag of Doritos per day but no more.

 

Quincy lives on pretzels and seafood salads. The price of pretzels is 1 dollar per bag and the price of seafood salads is 2 dollars each. Quincy allows himself to spend no more than 14 dollars a day on food. He also restricts his consumption to 3,400 calories per day. There are 600 calories in a bag of pretzels and 200 calories in a seafood salad. If he spends his entire money budget each day and consumes no more calories than his calorie limit, he can consume up to

 

  a.

5 seafood salads per day but no more.

  b.

2 bags of pretzels per day but no more.

  c.

5 bags of pretzels per day but no more.

  d.

4 bags of pretzels per day but no more.

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