word problem

Question

Laura is doing some shopping.She wants to buy jeans an shirts an has $95.00 to spend.

She plans to buy 4 pair of jeans a $23.00 each. Each shirt is $9.00.

 A: write an inquality for the problem if you do not know how many shirts Laura will buy?

B: Solve the inquality by usuing the quess an check method of choosing values for the number of shirts?

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Answer 1

Let the number of shirts she bought be x.

a)

95 >= 4(23) + 9x

b)

Solving the inequality, we have:

95 >= 92 + 9x
9x <= 95 - 92
9x <= 3
x <= 3 / 9
x <= 1/3

Thus, she can buy 1/3 of a shirt at most.
In conclusion, she did not bought any shirt due to lack of money.