Question

Tino's Pizza charges $9 for a cheese pizza.Eileen has 45$ to buy pizza for the Spanish club.Write and solve an inequality to find the maximum number of pizzas that Eileen can buy

Answer 1

The maximum number of pizzas that Eileen can buy is
`5`

Explanation:

Let

x------> the number of pizzas

we know that

The inequality that represent this situation is

`9x\leq \$45`

solve for x

Divide by 9 both sides

`x\leq 45/9`

`x\leq 5\ pizzas`

therefore

The maximum number of pizzas that Eileen can buy is
`5`