SOLUTION: You and a friend sell hats at a fair booth. You sell 16 hats on the first shift and 21 hats on the third shift. Your friend sells x hats on the second shift. a. Write an express

Question 1148881: You and a friend sell hats at a fair booth. You sell 16 hats on the first shift and 21 hats on the third shift. Your friend sells x hats on the second shift.
a. Write an expression for the number of hats sold.
expression:

Question 2
b. The expression 37(14)+10x represents the amount that you both earned. How can you tell that your friend was selling the hats for a discounted price?
In the expression 37(14)+10x, 37 represents the total number of hats you sold, 14 represents the price per hat you charged, 10 represents the price per hat your friend charged, and x represents the number of hats sold by your friend. Because $14 is greater than $10, your friend was selling the hats at a discounted price.

Question 3
c. You earned more money than your friend. What can you say about the value of x?
x is less than or equal to
.
Answer by Shin123(626) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Question 3: If you earn more money than your friend, than 10x < 37(14). Since 37*14=518, we have 10x<518. So x<51.8. Since x is an integer, then
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