Question

The FVHS football team is trying to raise money to buy new equipment so the players are selling “Bengal Cards” for $20 each. If the football team needs to raise at least $3,000 for equipment. Write an inequality to represent the situation and find the least number of “Bengal Cards” the team must sell?

Answer 1

The inequality that represents the situation is 20x ≥ 3000

The least number of Bengal Cards that the team must sell is 150.

Step-by-step explanation:

If we call x the number of Bengal Cards that the team will sell, the amount that the team will raise can be calculated as $20 times x or:

20x

Then, this quantity should be at least $3000, so we can write an inequality as:

20x ≥ 3000

Finally, to find the least number of Bengal Cards, we need to divide both sides by 20 as:

20x/20 ≥ 3000/20

x ≥ 150

Therefore, the inequality that represents the situation is 20x ≥ 3000 and the least number of Bengal Cards that the team must sell is 150.