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julia owns a food truck that sells tacos and burritos. she sells each taco for $3.75 and each burrito for $6 Julia must sell no less than $330 worth of tacos and burritos each day if $42 burritos were sold, determine all possible values for the number of tacos that julia must sell in order to meet the requirements.

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21 tacos at least (x ≥ 20.8)

1) Gathering the data

Taco $3.75 (x)

Burrito $6 (y)

x +y ≥ $330 sales per day

2) Since it's been given the number of burritos that's been sold, let's plug into the first inequality, considering y is for burritos:

3.75x +6(42)≥ 330 sales up to a certain moment

3.75x +252 ≥ 330 Subtract 252 from both sides

3.75x ≥ 78 Divide both sides by 3.75

x ≥ 20.8

3) So to beat the daily goal, and considering that no one buys a fraction of a taco then Julia must sell at least 21 tacos for that day and achieve the goal of selling no less than $330 in tacos and burritos.

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