Question

17. The cost of a bacon, egg, and cheese is $3 and the cost of a juice of $1.25. Derrick has $20 for breakfast and must buy 5 juices. Write the inequality that can be used to represent the maximum number of sandwiches he can buy and solve.

Answer 1

Let s be the number of sandwiches that Derrick can buy.

The inequality would be:

`\begin{gathered} 3s+1.25(20)\le20 \\ \end{gathered}`

Solving for s :