If the sale price of the coat is $169, you are looking for the original price. I like to think about it in the sense that if an item is 75% off, you are paying 25% of the original amount. Using that logic, in order to determine the sale price you would use the equation
Answer:if the notebooks cost 3.59 and pens cost 1.49, with x representing the notebooks and y representing the number of pens and an amount of $13, the inequality would be written as 3.59x+1.49y13
