SOLUTION: Amanda is planning on throwing a party for her little brother. She has $50 to buy chips and sodas with. A bag of chips cost $2.50 and a 2-liter of soda cost $2. Write and graph an

Question 1013360: Amanda is planning on throwing a party for her little brother. She has $50 to buy chips and sodas with. A bag of chips cost $2.50 and a 2-liter of soda cost $2.
Write and graph an inequality that represents how many bags of chips, x, and 2-liter, y, that Amanda can buy.

A)Write an inequality
B) What does the x-intercept represent and y-intercept
C) What is a solution that will work with Amanda situation
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
2.50x+2y<=50
x intercept is when y=0, and she can buy 20 bags of chips.
y-intercept is when x=0, and she can buy 25 bottles of soda.
The intercepts represent all the money on one item.
There are many such solutions, but one would be 16 bags of chips and 5 bottles of soda.

everything below and to the left of the line in the first quadrant would work.
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