Question

10. You can spend no more than $120 on a party you are hosting. The cost per guest is $8. Write and solve an

inequality to represent the number of guests you can invite to the party.

Answer 1

The number of guests you can invite to the party is 15 or fewer, since you cannot spend more than $120 and the cost per guest is $8.

Explanation:

The total cost of the party will be the cost per guest multiplied by the number of guests:

Cost of the party = $8 x g

We know that the total cost of the party cannot exceed $120, so we can set up the following inequality:

$8 x g ≤ $120

To solve for 'g', we can divide both sides of the inequality by $8:

g ≤ $120 / $8

g ≤ 15