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EsperJoe buys candy that costs $6 per pound. He will spend at most 72 on candy, What are the possible numbers of pounds he will buy?Use p for the number of pounds Joe will buy.Write your answer as an inequality solved for p.

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Let p be the number of pounds of candy Joe will buy, since he will spend at most $72 on candy, and each pound has a cors of $6 we get:


p*6\le72.

Dividing by 6 the above inequality we get:


\begin{gathered} (p*6)/(6)\le(72)/(6), \\ p\le12. \end{gathered}

Answer:


p\le12.

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