Question

Alicia cashed her paycheck and set aside the other half to take her friends out to dinner. She spent 42.15 on dinner and brought home more than 20.00. Write an inequality to represent the situation, using x to represent the amount of Alicia’s paycheck

Answer 1

about $63

Explanation:

Answer 2

`0.5x-42.15>20`

Explanation:

Let x represents the amount of Alicia’s paycheck.

Alicia set aside the other half to take her friends out to dinner. That means she took 0.5x with her for dinner.

She spent 42.15 on dinner and brought home more than 20.00.

So, the inequality will be :

`0.5x-42.15>20`

Solving for x;

=>
`0.5x>20+42.15`

=>
`0.5x>62.15`

x > 124.30