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Ryleigh received a $50 gift card to the frozen yogurt shop for her birthday. The shop sells yogurt sundaes for $4 and yogurt cones for $3. How many sundaes and cones can she buy with her card?

If x represents the number of yogurt sundaes and y represents the number of yogurt cones, which graph correctly shows the solution to the problem 4x + 3y ≤ 50?

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Answer:

To find out how many yogurt sundaes and cones Ryleigh can buy, we need to solve the inequality 4x + 3y ≤ 50, where x is the number of sundaes and y is the number of cones.

We can rearrange the inequality to solve for y:

3y ≤ 50 - 4x

y ≤ (50 - 4x)/3

This tells us that the maximum number of cones Ryleigh can buy is (50 - 4x)/3, given that she has already bought x sundaes.

To graph the solution to this inequality, we can plot the boundary line 4x + 3y = 50, which represents the maximum amount that Ryleigh can spend with her gift card. To plot the line, we can find two points on it by setting x to 0 and solving for y, and then setting y to 0 and solving for x:

When x = 0, we get:

4(0) + 3y = 50

y = 50/3

So one point on the line is (0, 50/3).

When y = 0, we get:

4x + 3(0) = 50

x = 12.5

So another point on the line is (12.5, 0).

We can plot these two points and draw a line through them to get the boundary line:

| * (12.5, 0)

|

|

3 | *

| *

| * (0, 50/3)

|________________________

0 10 20

Next, we need to shade the region of the graph that satisfies the inequality 4x + 3y ≤ 50. One way to do this is to test a point that is not on the boundary line, such as (0, 0):

4(0) + 3(0) = 0 ≤ 50

Since this point satisfies the inequality, we need to shade the region below the boundary line. Therefore, the correct graph is:

| * (12.5, 0)

| /

| /

3 | *

| /

| /

|/_______

0 10 20

The shaded region represents all the possible combinations of sundaes and cones that Ryleigh can buy with her gift card.

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