SOLUTION: 4. You have $39 to spend at the music store. Each cassette tape costs $5 and each CD costs $11. Write a linear inequality that represents this situation. Let x represent the num

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Question 1210642: 4.
You have $39 to spend at the music store. Each cassette tape costs $5 and each CD costs $11. Write a linear inequality that represents this situation. Let x represent the number of tapes and y the number of CDs.
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You have $39 to spend at the music store. Each cassette tape costs $5 and each CD costs $11.
Write a linear inequality that represents this situation. Let x represent the number of tapes and y the number of CDs.
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Write inequalities as you read the problem


    5x + 11y <= 39,

    x >= 0,  y >= 0.



Actually, there are 3 (three) inequalities, describing the situation, not one.


Plus an additional condition that x and y are integer numbers.

Happy learning (!)