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Catherine has $54. She plans to spend more than $20 of the money for a painting canvas. The rest will go toward paints. Each tube of paint costs $8.50. Assume that x represents the number of tubes of paint Catherine can buy. The inequality that best represents this scenario is . The number of tubes of paint Catherine can buy is .

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she can buy 3 tubes be cause 8.50 time 2 is less then 20$ but 8.50 times three is more than 20$ its 25.5
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