Katie works part time at a grocery store to earn extra money to buy a furniture set that costs $1,500. She currently has $750 saved and wants to add $35 each week from her pay check. Write an inequality that could be used to determine w, the number of weeks she will have to save, plus her savings, in order for her to have more than $1,500.

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Miranda Weeks

Mathematics

3 August, 05:44

Katie works part time at a grocery store to earn extra money to buy a furniture set that costs $1,500. She currently has $750 saved and wants to add $35 each week from her pay check. Write an inequality that could be used to determine w, the number of weeks she will have to save, plus her savings, in order for her to have more than $1,500.

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Aedan Crawford · Answer 1

750 + 35w > 1500

Step-by-step explanation:

35w will be the amount that Katie has saved from her pay check after w weeks. Added to the 750 she already has, she wants the total to be greater than 1500. In math language, this is ...

... 750 + 35w > 1500