Question

ony’s class needs more than $500 for the school dance. So far, they have raised $200. They plan to have a car wash, charging $8 a car, to raise more money. Tony solved the inequality 8x + 200 is greater than or equal to 500, and determined that if they wash 37 cars, they will have enough money. Is he correct? Explain.

Answer 1

No, he is not correct for if they washed 37 cars they would have made a total of 296 dollars washing cars. Because this is an inequality, he needs to get a value equal too or greater than 300 dollars on car washes. Also, because he already has 200 dollars collected, you could write the inequality as "8x is greater than or equal to 300".

Answer 2

No, Tony is not correct. Solving the inequality tells us that x is greater than or equal to 37.5. Since the class must wash a whole number of cars, they need to wash at least 38 cars.

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