Chapter 1.1, Problem 59SE

For the following exercise, solve the given problem.

59. Ramon runs the marketing department at his company. His department gets a budget every year, and every year, he must spend the entire budget without going over. If he spends less than the budget, then his department gets a smaller budget the following year. At the beginning of this year, Ramon got $2.5 million for the annual marketing budget. He must spend the budget such that $2,500,000-x=0$ . What propertyof addition tells us what the value of x must be?