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Salma buys candy that costs $4 per pound. She will buy more than 10 pounds of candy. What are the possible amounts she willspend on candy?Use c for the amount (in dollars) Salma will spend on candy.Write your answer as an inequality, solved for c.

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Let c be the amount in dollars Salma spends on candy, since she buys more than 10 pounds of candy, and each pound has a cost of $4, we get that:


c>10\cdot4.

Simplifying the above inequality we get:


c>40.

Answer:


c>40.
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