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Andy is purchasing candy for a fundraising event. He is joining a warehouse club to get the best price. The one-time membership fee at the warehouse club is $35, and each box of candy costs $12 including tax. Andy has $200 to cover all of his costs at the warehouse club.

Write an inequality that represents the possible number of boxes of candy, x, that Andy may purchase. Define the solution set of your inequality in terms of the context. Show all work to support your explanation.

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I think what you might do is divide 200 by 35 and then 12
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