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Tyrone has $95 to spend. He already bought pants for $22. How many $5 t-shirts can he buy if he wants to have at least $15 left over?

a. Write an inequality that demonstrates this situation

b. solve your inequality

c. Explain what your answer means to Tyrone

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Answer:

a. Write an inequality that demonstrates this situation

Let x be the number of $5 t-shirts Tyrone can buy

The inequality that demonstrates this situation is:

x*5 + 22 <= 95 - 15

b. solve your inequality

x5 + 22 <= 80

x5 <= 58

x <= 11.6

x <= 11

c. Explain what your answer means to Tyrone

Tyrone has $95 to spend, he already bought pants for $22, so he has $95-22 = $73 left to spend. He wants to have at least $15 left over after buying t-shirts, so he can buy up to $73-15 = $58 worth of t-shirts. Each t-shirt costs $5, so he can buy a maximum of 11 t-shirts (58/5=11.6) with no remainder. So Tyrone can buy 11 t-shirts and he will have $73-11*5 = $18 left. This means that Tyrone can buy 11 t-shirts and still have $18 left over.

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