99 POINTS!!!!PLEASE HELP ASAP! and please answer both questions by there self. Alex sells T-Shirts. It costs Alex $6.50 to buy e
ach T-shirt. Alex also pays $156 each month to rent equipment to add print to the T-shirts. Alex sells each T-shirt for $12.50.
1. Write an inequality that can be used to determine the number of T-shirts (T) Alex must sell each month in order to make a profit for the month. (Assume that Alex sells each T-shirt he buys.) Answer: ____________
2. What is the minimum number of T-shirts Alex must sell in order to make a profit in a given month? Remember this is an inequality not an equation.(Assume that Alex sells each T-shirt he buys.) Answer: ____________
You want to put all the money Alex spends on one side of the inequality, and all the money Alex earns on the other side. To make a profit, the earning side has to be greater than the spending side.
Solve your inequality by isolating the variable.
6.50t + 156 < 12.50t
156 < 12.50t - 6.50t
156 < 6t
156/6 < t
26 < t
Alex must sell greater than 26 shirts to make a profit each month.