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A museum charges $5.50 per visitor. Today the museum has already admitted 69 visitors. Write and solve an inequality to find out how many visitors the museum needs to admit to earn at least $500 today?

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375.5+5.50x greater then or equal to 500. the answer is 22
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just solve 5.5x = 500 where x = # of visitors. Answer is 90.9 but you round down. So 90 visitors.
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