Which inequality below models the following situation?

You want to spend less than $20 grapes and bananas. Grapes are $3.00 per pound and bananas are $.50 per pound. Let a represent the weight of the grapes and b represent the weight of the bananas.

Question

Which inequality below models the following situation?

You want to spend less than $20 grapes and bananas. Grapes are $3.00 per pound and bananas are $.50 per pound. Let a represent the weight of the grapes and b represent the weight of the bananas.

anonymous · Answer

$3.00a+$.50b<$20

The equation means, $3.00/lb of grapes times 'a' lbs of grapes plus $0.5/lb of bananas times 'b' lbs of bananas must be less than $20. :)

anonymous · Answer

the less than is < or > sorry its been a long time since i did that stuff lol

anonymous · Answer

Less than is '<'.
Greater than is '>'

No problem :)