Question

A type of fish for your aquarium costs $4 each. You can spend at most $28. How many of these fish

can you buy? Write an inequality to model the problem. Then solve the inequality to find the number
of fish.

Answer 1

If the cost of a fish for your aquarium costs $3 each, and you can spend no more than $27, then the inequality that would model this scenario would be: 3f≤27.

If we let f to be the number of fish you can buy, this inequality would directly translate to: three dollars times the number of fish you can buy is no greater than 27 dollars, which perfectly matches this scenario.

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