Question

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Trisha needs to make at least 50 gift bags for an event. Each gift bag will contain at least 1 thumb drive or 1 key chain. She wants to use at least 5 times as many key chains as thumb drives. She has 25 thumb drives and 200 key chains.

Let x represent the number of key chains. Let y represent the number of thumb drives.

Write an inequality for this situation.

Answer 1

5x ≥ 1y

Explanation:

The number key chains is 8 times the number of thumb drives. She wants to use at least 5 times at many.