Answer: you can buy at most, 61 rose bushes.
Step-by-step explanation:
Let x represent the total number of rose bushes that you can buy.
Each of my rose bushes cost 24 gold coins plus a delivery fee of 16 gold coins. This means that the total amount(in terms of gold coins) that you would pay for x rose bushes is
16x + 24
If I have, at most, 1,000 gold coins to spend, then the inequality that represents this situation would be expressed as
16x + 24 ≤ 1000
16x ≤ 1000 - 24
16x ≤ 976
x ≤ 976/16
x ≤ 61
