Your cousin’s birthday is this weekend. you want to buy a cd that costs $12.99 and a birthday card that costs $2.50. you have saved $25. write an inequality to find the most money you have for other spending.

Given:

To Find:

An inequality to find the most money that can be used for other spending.

Solution:

The required inequality is .

Explanation:

Let x denote the money I can spend for other purposes. Then x has to be less than or equal to the left over money of my savings after the CD and card are bought.

The CD and card together cost me $12.99 + 2.50 = $15.49

My savings are $25.

So, after buying the CD and card, I'll be left with $25 - 15.49 = $9.51

Thus all my other expenditure denoted by x has to be less than or equal to 9.51.

The required inequality is .

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