You and two friends are making a gift basket. You want to keep the cost below $15 per person. Write and solve an inequality that

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Alex73 [517]

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You and two friends are making a gift basket. You want to keep the cost below $15 per person. Write and solve an inequality that

represents the total cost of the gift basket.

Mathematics

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alexandr1967 [171] · Answer 1 · 2022-07-25T01:55:13+03:00

alexandr1967 [171]3 years ago

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If there are three friends, each spending under $15, then combined, they must spend less than 3*$15=$45. Therefore, if x is the cost of the gift basket, in dollars, we see that x < 45.