SOLUTION: Admission to the Valentine's Dance is $6 and snacks are $1.50. You have &12. Write an inequality involving s, the number of snacks you can purchase. How do I start that?

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Question 1018949: Admission to the Valentine's Dance is $6 and snacks are $1.50. You have &12. Write an inequality involving s, the number of snacks you can purchase. How do I start that?
Found 2 solutions by Marz157, MathTherapy:
Answer by Marz157(7)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Lets take an example as say that you wanted to buy 2 snacks and go to the dance. How would you compute how much money that you would spend?
Well, you pay $6 for the dance and 2 times the $1.50 for the two snacks for a total of $9. Now, how do you know if you are actually allowed do that. You compare the $9 that you want to spend to the $12 that you are allowed to spend. Since 9 is less than 12, it must be okay.
Now we just replace that 2 snacks with an S to write our equation. We just need the amount of money we spend on the dance and S snacks to be less than $12
Answer by MathTherapy(10556)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Admission to the Valentine's Dance is $6 and snacks are $1.50. You have &12. Write an inequality involving s, the number of snacks you can purchase. How do I start that? 
Let number of snacks you can buy, be S

Since each snack costs $1.50, admission is $6, and you have $12, then we get:  

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