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Seth owns a printing shop that makes customized T-shirts. The cost to make a T-shirt is
$4. There is a one-time $10 design fee. How many shirts can be made with a budget of
$170. Set up an equation and solve for the number of shirts that can be made.

User Nae
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Answer:

40 shirts.

Explanation:

The budget is $170.
There's a one time fee of $10.
A T-shirt costs $4.
Put that in an equation with x, where x is the amount of t-shirts that can be made, to solve for it.
170 - (4x + 10) = 0
170 = 4x + 10
-10
160 = 4x
/4
40 = x
So, 40 shirts can be made at most.

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