Question

You and a friend are throwing a party. You can spend no more $150 on food and drinks. You decide to order pizzas for $12 each and buy soda and juice for a total cost of $42. How many pizzas can you buy without going over your budget? Write and solve the inequality to represent the situation.

Answer 1

The answer is 9 pizzas.

Explanation:

Answer 2

9 pizzas

Explanation:

Create an inequality where x represents the number of pizzas:

12x + 42
`\leq` 150

Solve for x:

12x
`\leq` 108

x
`\leq` 9

So, you can buy 9 pizzas without going over the budget.