Problema Solution
A type of fish for your aquarium costs $5 each. You can spend no more than $35. How many of these fish can you buy? Write an inequality to model the problem. Then solve the inequality to find the number of fish.
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Let 'x' represent the number of fish bought.
The inequality that models the problem is:
5x <= 35
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x <= 7
The number of fish that can be bough is not more than 7.