Question

it costs $16 to attend a festival where bottles of hot sauce cost $5 each. Marquis has $50 to spend. He writes the inequality 16 1 5h # 50, where h is the number of bottles of hot sauce. Which values from the set {5, 6, 7, 8} are solutions of the inequality? What does this mean in the context of the problem?

Answer 1

5, 6 are the solutions

Explanation:

• each bottle of hot sauce costs $5 each

• it costs $16 to attend a festival

• total he has = $50

Here, the cost of attending the festival is constant, the bottles of hot sauce keeps changing until less amount of money reached.

Inequality:

5h + 16 = 50

5h = 50 - 16

5h = 34

h = 34/5

h = 6.8

So, he can buy max or less than 6 bottles of hot sauce.