Question

Will medal.
Rueben is serving his child french fries and chicken wings for lunch today. Let f be the number of french fries in the lunch, and let
c be the number of chicken wings. Each french fry has
25 calories, and each chicken wing has
100 calories. Rueben wants the total calorie count from the french fries and chicken wings to be at most
600 calories. Using the values and variables given, write an inequality describing this.

Answer 1

\[100 c+25 f\leq 600 \]

Answer 2

Here is an explanation of how @robtobey got that inequality

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c = number of chicken wings
f = number of french fries

each chicken wing has 100 calories, so c of them gives 100c calories
each fry has 25 calories, f of them yields 25f calories

in total, there is `100c+25f` calories when you combine the chicken and fries together

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the instructions say "Rueben wants the total calorie count from the french fries and chicken wings to be at most 600 calories"

so essentially he wants the upper limit of the calories to be 600. He does not want to go over this amount

so that's why that sentence leads to the inequality \[\Large 100c+25f \le 600\] which is the final answer

Answer 3

Thanks :)

Answer 4

no problem