Cody wants to attend the fall festival at school. The price of admission to the festival is $5.00 and each game cost an additional 75 cents. If Cody has $15.00 to spend at the festival, which Inequality can be used to solve for g, the number of games that he can play, and what is the maximum number of games he can play?

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Devyn Graves

Mathematics

27 February, 14:07

Cody wants to attend the fall festival at school. The price of admission to the festival is $5.00 and each game cost an additional 75 cents. If Cody has $15.00 to spend at the festival, which Inequality can be used to solve for g, the number of games that he can play, and what is the maximum number of games he can play?

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Kael Hayden · Answer 1

Given:

admission price = 5.00

game cost = 0.75

budget = 15.00

5 + 0.75g < 15

5 + 0.75g < 15

-5 - 5

0.75g < 10

:0.75 : 0.75

g < 13.33

Cody can play a maximum of 13 games.

5 + 0.75g < 15

5 + 0.75 (13) < 15

5 + 9.75 < 15

14.75 < 15