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cheryl has $56 and wants to buy as many notebooks as she can to donate to her school. if each notebook costs $1.60, which inequality shows n, the maximum number of notebooks she can buy with her money?

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The answer to the question is 1.6n<=56

User Chris Carruthers
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Amount of money that Cheryl has = $56
Cost of each notebook = $1.60
The maximum number of notebooks she can buy = n
Then

n = 56/1.6

is the inequality that shows the maximum number of notebooks she can buy with her money

On solving the inequality, we get
n = 35 notebooks.
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