Question

Farmer Farah has a $100,000 budget for planting strawberries and peas.

• Planting strawberries costs $500 per acre.
• Planting peas costs $200 per acre.
Write an inequality to describe how many acres of strawberries, s, and peas, p, Farmer Farah can grow with $100,000

Answer 1

The amount of money needed to grow 1 acre of strawberries is 500s.

The amount of money needed to grow 1 acre of peas is 200p.

Since the budget is 100,000 dollars, we can write an inequality :

`500s + 200p \leq 100,000`