Question

how many cheese pizzas can the girls buy if they pool all their money together? inequality form for each scenario. CHEESE PIZZA IS 7.25 DOLLARS.

Answer 1

Since we have 5 girls and their parents give each other $10, they have in total $50.

Now, let x be the number of pizzas they buy, since each pizza cost $7.25 the total cost for x pizzas is:

`7.25x`

this should be less or equal to $50 (otherwise the girls go over budget), then the inequality that represents this situation is:

`7.25x\leq50`

Now, solving the inequality we get:

`\begin{gathered} 7.25x\leq50 \\ x\leq(50)/(7.25) \\ x\leq6.9 \end{gathered}`

Therefore, they can buy a maximum of 6 pizzas without going over budget.