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Maggie has $30 in her bank account and is making weekly deposits of $10. She is saving up to buy a hoodie

that costs at least $75. Write and solve an inequality about how many weeks Maggie needs to save to at least
purchase the hoodie? Show work and explain and please graph on number line PLEASE!

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User Mhadidg
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im pretty sure the answer would be :)
w > = 5
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User Togi
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Answer:

w >= 5

Explanation:

Let's start by defining a variable to represent the number of weeks Maggie needs to save up to buy the hoodie. Let's call this variable "w".

We know that Maggie currently has $30 in her bank account, and she will be making weekly deposits of $10. Therefore, after w weeks, she will have saved up:

$30 + $10w

To purchase the hoodie, Maggie needs at least $75 in her bank account. Therefore, we can write the following inequality:

$30 + $10w >= $75

To solve for w, we can start by subtracting $30 from both sides:

$10w >= $45

Next, we can divide both sides by $10:

w >= 4.5

This means that Maggie needs to save up for at least 4.5 weeks to purchase the hoodie. However, since she cannot save for half a week, we can round up to the nearest whole number, which gives us:

w >= 5

Therefore, Maggie needs to save up for at least 5 weeks to purchase the hoodie.

To graph this inequality on a number line, we can draw a closed circle at 5 (since Maggie needs to save for at least 5 weeks), and shade to the right of the circle (since any value of w greater than or equal to 5 will satisfy the inequality).

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User Sanxofon
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