Question

Lisa has $150 at most to spend on clothes. She wants to buy a pair of jeans for $58 and will spend the rest on t-shirts that cost $14 each. (5 points each) 2. Create an inequality to represent the number of t-shirts that Lisa can purchase. You can create a visual model in a paint program if that helps. Make sure you explain what the variable represents in your inequality

Answer 1

Answer:

14t + 58 ≤ 150

Step-by-step explanation:

If she cannot spend more than what she has, which is 150, the inequality sign has to be "less than or equal to".  It's ok if she spends less than 150, but not ok if she spends more, because she doesn't have it to spend.

We know the cost of 1 pair of jeans is 58.  Now she wants to make up the difference by getting as many $14 shirts as possible (the number of shirts being our unknown).  

That means that the cost of the jeans PLUS the unknown number of shirts cannot exceed 150.

Therefore, the inequality is:

14t + 58 ≤ 150