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a band is selling stickers and albums at a concert the stockers sell for $1.50 each and the albums sell for $10 each the band wants to earn at least $50 from sales of stickers and albums let x represent the number of stickers and y represent the number of albums they sell

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The inequality is 1.5*x + 10*y ≥ 50, and the graph is in the image at the end.

How to model this situation?

We know that the variables are:

x = number of stickers they sell.

y = number of albums they sell.

Then the total revenue is given by the expression:

1.5*x + 10*y

And we know that they want to make at least $50, then we can model this with the inequality:

1.5*x + 10*y ≥ 50

Now let's graph it, we can isolate y to get:

y ≥ (50 - 1.5x)/10

To graph the inequality, you need to graph that line and shade the region above the line. The line must be solid because y can be equal to the points in the line.

Complete question:

"a band is selling stickers and albums at a concert the stockers sell for $1.50 each and the albums sell for $10 each the band wants to earn at least $50 from sales of stickers and albums let x represent the number of stickers and y represent the number of albums they sell.

Write and graph the inequality"

a band is selling stickers and albums at a concert the stockers sell for $1.50 each-example-1
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