Question

A pizza shop charges $2.25 for a slice of pizza and $0.25 for each topping. You can spend at most $4.50 for one slice of pizza. Which inequality could you use to figure out the number of toppings, n, you can have?

Answer 1

`2.25+0.25n\leq 4.50`

Explanation:

Let n be the number of toppings we can have.

We are told that a pizza shop charges $2.25 for a slice of pizza and $0.25 for each topping. So the cost of one pizza slice with n toppings will be:
`2.25+0.25n`.

We are also told that we can spend at most $4.50 for one slice of pizza. This means we can not spend more than $4.50 for one slice of pizza. We can represent this information as:

`2.25+0.25n\leq 4.50`

Therefore, the inequality
`2.25+0.25n\leq 4.50` represents the number of toppings, n, we can have.