Question

Debbie has at most $60 to spend on clothes. She wants to buy a pair of jeans for $22 and the rest on t-shirts. Write an inequality that represents the relationship between the amount of money Debbie has and how much she can spend on t-shirts.

Answer 1

22+8x less then or equal to 60

Explanation:

Debbie has at most $60 to spend

Then it will be <=60

Now she has to spend 22 dollars on jeans so 22 will be add to the initial amount for sure.

And

Let x be the number of t-shirts

Then the cost of x t-shirts will be 8x

Putting this in to inequality will be:

The inequality to find the maximum number of t-shirts is: