John is at a local bait shop; he wants to buy bait for his fishing trip. At the store, they are selling love bait for $12 a pound and natural bait for $7 a pound. John would like to get at least 3 pounds of live bait, but he only has a budget of $63. Let x be the amount of live bait and y be the amount of natural bait. Model the scenario with the system of inequalities.

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Geo567331 · Answer

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SmokeyBrown · Answer

Live bait costs 12 each pound for x number of pounds, and natural bait costs 7 dollars a pound for y number of pounds.
So, the total cost that John spends will be: 12x + 7y
We also know that John has a maximum of $63 he can spend, so the total cost can't be more than that.
Putting it all together we can make an inequality to represent this relationship. How would we represent "the total amount spent on bait (given by 12x + 7y) cannot be more than $63"?