Problema Solution

A drive in movie theater charges $3.50 per car. The drive in has already admitted 100 cars. Write and solve an inequality to find the numbers of cars the drive in needs to admit to make at least $500.

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Let 'x' represent the number of cars that the drive in needs to admit to make at least $500:

3.50*(100 + x) >= 500

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x >= 42.9

Since x can only be integer, the number of cars the drive needs to admit is no less than 43 cars.