Question

algebra help for medals!

Answer 1

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Answer 2

what is the qestion?

Answer 3

You want to buy some wallpaper to decorate your kitchen. A roll of wallpaper is on sale for $10. Write and solve an inequality to determine how many rolls of wallpaper you can buy and spend no more than $50.

Answer 4

You can write the inequality:

\(10x \le 50\)

Because you can spend no more than $50, it's less than or equal to.

Answer 5

Now to solve divide 50 / 10.

Answer 6

5

Answer 7

Yep, that gives you:

\(x \le 5\)

Which means, you can buy no more than 5 rolls of wallpaper.

Answer 8

No, you leave the sign the way it is, you only change it when you divide or multiply by a negative number.