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You have 7.60 to buy cantaloupes for a fruit salad recipe. Cantaloupes cost 1.90 each. Write and solve an inequality that represents the number of avocado you can buy

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what is the relevance of avocados?
cantaloupes - 1.90x=7.60
x=4
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The total amount or we can say, the maximum amount to buy Cantaloupes is 7.60 .

And single Cantaloupes cost $ 1.90 .

Let the number of Cantaloupes be x.

So we have


1.90 x \leq 7.60

And that's the required equation .

Dividing both sides by 1.90,


x \leq 4

And that's the required answer .

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