SOLUTION: You are buying plants for your garden. The soil cost $4 per bag and the plant cost $10 each. You want to buy at least 5 plants and you can spend no more than $100 total. Write

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Question 1135284: You are buying plants for your garden. The soil cost $4 per bag and the plant cost $10 each. You want to buy at least 5 plants and you can spend no more than $100 total.
Write the system of linear inequality to model the situation.

Answer by ikleyn(52781) About Me  (Show Source):
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The system consists of 2 (two) inequalities 


    p >= 5,           (counting plants)         (1)

    10p + 4b <= 100   (counting dollars)        (2)


where p is the number of plants  and  b is the number of the soil bags.