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Coach Carter's budget to buy new uniforms is between $400 and $600. If anew set of uniforms cost $40 each, how many new sets can he afford to buy?Variable Represents:Inequality:Solve:Sentence:

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Problem

Coach Carter's budget to buy new uniforms is between $400 and $600. If a

new set of uniforms cost $40 each, how many new sets can he afford to buy?

Solution

Variable Represents:

x= represent the number of sets that he can afford to buy

Inequality:

400 < 40x< 600

Solve:

400/40< x < 600/60

10 < x < 15

Sentence:

For this case we can conclude that the number of sets that he can afford to buy are between 10 and 15

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