Question

Addy spent $15 on supplies to make giant sugar

cookies and plans to sell them at her neighborhood bak
sale for $2 each. She wants her profit after paying back expenses to be at least $25
1. What inequality would represent this situation? Label all parts of your inequality

Answer 1

$2x - $15 ≥ $25

• $2 is the price of each cookie
• x is the number of cookies
• $15 is the amount spent on supplies
• ≥ is the inequality sign
• $25 is the least amount of profit

Explanation:

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Addy is selling each cookie for $2, so let x represent the number of cookies. The number of cookies she sells is $2x.

Also remember that she spent $15, so we must subtract $15 from her cookie sales of $2x.

So, we have half of our equation: $2x - $15

Now, she needs to make atleast $25 from all of this, so we can use the ≥ symbol for that.

So our final equation is: $2x - $15 ≥ $25

Labels:

• $2 is the price of each cookie
• x is the number of cookies
• $15 is the amount spent on supplies
• ≥ is the inequality sign
• $25 is the least amount of profit