Question

Florencia cannot spend more than $60 on clothes. She wants to buy jeans for $22 and spend the rest on shirts. Each shirt (s) costs $8. Write an inequality to describe this situation.

Answer 1

Answer:

Florencia has at most $60 to spend on clothes. She wants to buy a pair of jeans for $22 dollars and spend the rest on t-shirts. Each t-shirt costs $8. Write an inequality for the number of t-shirts she can purchase and explain how you got that answer.

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she has $60 at most so that will be<=60

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she wants to buy a pair of jeans for $22.

she will spend 22 for sure.

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let number of T shirts she buys be x

so the cost of x T shirts will be 6x

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INEQUALITY

22 + 6x <60

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