Question

Suppose David has 65 dollars to spend on his ticket and some shirts. He already spent 32.25 dollars on his ticket and fee. Write an inequality that could be used to find the maximum number of shirts he can buy.

Answer 1

The money available to buy shirts is $32.75

Explanation:

Let

a represent ticket fee ($32.25)

b represent money available to buy shirts

From the question, we know that :

a + b
`\leq` 65 ------ equation 1

let equation 1 above be the inequality that represent the situation ,

meaning the total of ticket fee and money for shirt is less than or equal to $65.

Since we know that a = 32.25, we substitute the value of a in equation 1 above, and solve for b, we have:

32.25 + b
`\leq` 65

b
`\leq` 65 - 32.25

b
`\leq` 32.75

The money available to buy shirts is therefore $32.75