Question

A pastry chef wants to spend less than $100 on almonds. Almonds cost $4 per pound. Write and solve an inequality to represent p, the number of pounds of almonds the chef could by.

Answer 1

`p<25`

Explanation:

Since 1 pound costs $4, the $100 that the chef has can be converted to pounds by dividing the money he has by the cost of the pound:

`100/4=25`

the chef could by 25 pounds with $100.

Since he wants to spend LESS THAN $100, that means he wants to buy LESS THAN 25 pounds

so if
`p` is the number of pounds of almonds the chef could buy, the inequality that represents this situation is:

`p<25`

this is because the chef can only buy less than 25 of the pound of almonds and the symbol '<' represents that.