Question

2. The school store is selling notebooks for $1.50 and T-shirts for

$10.00 to raise money for the school. They have a goal of
raising $250 to buy supplies for the science lab. If they have
sold 60 notebooks, how many T-shirts will they need to sell
to reach their goal?
Let tequal the number of T-shirts. What’s the inequality

Answer 1

Explanation:

The total amount of money raised from selling notebooks is 60 notebooks * $1.50/notebook = $<<60*1.5=90>>90.

The total amount of money raised from selling T-shirts is $250 - $90 = $<<250-90=160>>160.

The number of T-shirts needed to reach the goal is $160 / $10/T-shirt = <<160/10=16>>16 T-shirts.

The inequality is 16 T-shirts * $10/T-shirt >= $250.

Simplifying, we get $160 >= $250.

This inequality is not true, so the school store needs to sell more than 16 T-shirts to reach their goal.