Question

Martina buys candy that costs $6 per pound. She will spend more than $60 on candy. What are the possible numbers of pounds she will buy?

Use p for the number of pounds Martina will buy.
Write your answer as an inequality solved for p.

Answer 1

To find the number of pounds Martina will buy, set up the inequality 6p > 60 since the candy costs $6 per pound and she will spend more than $60. Dividing both sides by 6 yields the inequality p > 10, meaning she will buy more than 10 pounds.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student is asking how to write an inequality to represent the possible numbers of pounds of candy Martina will buy if the candy costs $6 per pound and she will spend more than $60. Since the price is $6 per pound, and we are using p to represent the number of pounds, the total cost would be 6 times p, or 6p. Martina will spend more than $60, so we write that as 6p > 60. To solve for p, we divide both sides by 6, which gives us the inequality p > 10. This means Martina will buy more than 10 pounds of candy.