Question

Clare would like to buy a video game that costs at least $130. She has saved $48 so far and plans on saving $5 of her allowance each week. Write an inequality to find out the number of weeks it will take until she has enough money to buy the game.

Answer 1

To determine how many weeks it will take Clare to save enough money to buy the video game, we need to find the number of weeks it will take for her to save at least $130. Let w be the number of weeks it will take for Clare to save enough money. We can set up the following inequality to represent this situation:

$48 + $5w >= $130

To solve this inequality, we can first add $48 to both sides to get rid of the constant on the left side:

$48 + $48 + $5w >= $130

This simplifies to $96 + $5w >= $130. Subtracting $96 from both sides gives us $5w >= $34. Dividing both sides by $5 gives us w >= 6.8. Since w represents the number of weeks, the solution must be a whole number. Therefore, Clare will need to save for at least 7 weeks in order to have enough money to buy the video game.