Catherine has $54. She plans to spend more than $20 of the money for a painting canvas. The rest will go toward paints. Each tube of paint costs $8.50. Assume that x represents the number of tubes of paint Catherine can buy. The inequality that best represents this scenario is . The number of tubes of paint Catherine can buy is .
Mathematics · High School · Thu Feb 04 2021
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Each tube of paint costs $8.50. The cost of x tubes of paint would be 8.5x
Therefore, the inequality that best represents the scenario is
8.5x < 54 - 20
8.5x + 20 < 54
The number of tubes that she can buy is
8.5x < 34
x < 34/8.5
x < 4
Less than 4 tubes