Question

Salma buys candy that costs $4 per pound. She will buy more than 10 pounds of candy. What are the possible amounts she willspend on candy?Use c for the amount (in dollars) Salma will spend on candy.Write your answer as an inequality, solved for c.

Answer 1

Let c be the amount in dollars Salma spends on candy, since she buys more than 10 pounds of candy, and each pound has a cost of $4, we get that:

$c>10\cdot4.$

Simplifying the above inequality we get:

$c>40.$

Answer:

$c>40.$