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Sean wants to do something special for his wife, so he decides to get her favorite pizza for dinner. Sean will get one large pizza for $9 and each topping cost at most $1. write an inequality to represent how much Sean will possibly pay for dinner based on how many toppings he gets .let T represent the number of toppings and P( T) represent the total price Sean will pay.

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Let:

T = number of toppings

P(T) = total price Sean will pay

B = Sean's budget


P(T)=9+1T

since the cost of the pizza cannot exceed Sean's budget:


\begin{gathered} P(T)\leq B \\ \text{Where:} \\ P(T)=9+1T \\ So\colon \\ 9+1T\leq B \end{gathered}
P(T)\ge9+T

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