Veronica spent a minimum of $65 on a doll and accessories for the doll. The doll cost $26 and the accessories cost $13 each. Write an inequality can be used to find the possible values for x, the number of doll accessories Veronica could have bought.

If you solve for x, you get which means she bought at least 3 accessories.

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Explanation:

x = number of accessories, some nonnegative whole number

13x = amount spent on accessories only

For instance, let's say she bought 5 accessories. This means she spent 13x = 13*5 = 60 dollars on those five items.

This is on top of the $26 Veronica paid for the doll itself (without the accessories). In total, she spent 13x+26 dollars for the doll (26) and the accessories (13x) combined.

We're told she spent a minimum of $65, which means that she spent 65 or more dollars.

So the total cost (13x+26) must be equal to 65 or larger than 65.

We write that as which sets up the inequality.

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Let's solve for x

So x can be equal to 3, or larger than it.

The lowest value x can be is 3.

Meaning that she bought at least 3 accessories (ie she bought 3 or more accessories).

the answer is 0.071

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