Question

Lily has at most $75 to spend on clothes. She wants to buy a pair of jeans for $30 and spend the rest on t-shirts. If each t-shirt costs $9, what inequality represents the maximum amount of t-shirts she could buy?

Answer 1

The inequality represents the maximum amount of t-shirts she could buy is:

30x+9y≤75

Explanation:

With the information provided, you can say that the result of adding up the price per jean for the number of jeans plus the price per shirt for the number of shirts has to be less than or equal to 75, which can be represented as:

30x+9y≤75, where

x is he number of jeans purchased

y is he number of shirts purchased