Question

Greg needs to buy gas and oil for his car. Gas costs $3.45 a gallon, and oil costs $2.41 a quart. He has $50 to spend. Write an inequality to represent the situation, where g is the number of gallons of gas he buys and q is the number of quarts of oil.

Answer 1

The gas cost $3.45 a gallon and the oil cost $2.41 a quart. He only has $50 to spend on those material. The situation as an inequality can be represented below

$\begin{gathered} g=nu\text{mbers of gallons of gas} \\ q=nu\text{mbers of quarts of oil} \\ 3.45g+2.41q\leq50 \\ \end{gathered}$