Question

A catering company charges $300 plus $40 per guest for a wedding. Sarah and Eric do not want to spend more than $5,000 on catering. Write and solve an inequality in terms of the number of guests, g, that can be invited.

Answer 1

5,000=300 + 40x
-300     -300
4,700= 40x
 4,700/40=x
117.5 =x                    sarah and eric cant have anymore than 117 guests

Answer 2

300 + 40g ≤ 5000; g ≤ 117 is the correct answer. Take the base amount, 300, and add 40 “g” times (“g” is the number of guests). This expression must be ≤ 5000 since they do not want to spend more than $5,000. Solve the inequality to get the answer.


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