Amy and Dex are going to a play. Dex wants to have at least $65 in his wallet. He currently has $10. How do you write and solve an inequality to find how much more cash Dex should put in his wallet?

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Amy and Dex are going to a play. Dex wants to have at least $65 in his wallet. He currently has $10. How do you write and solve an inequality to find how much more cash Dex should put in his wallet?

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Answer 1 · 2017-02-16T13:33:33

Let's call the additional amount of money Dex needs in his wallet #d#. Also, the inequality we will write will contain the #>=# sign because Dex wants to have "at least". We can then write:

#$10 + d >= $65#

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Amy and Dex are going to a play. Dex wants to have at least $65 in his wallet. He currently has $10. How do you write and solve an inequality to find how much more cash Dex should put in his wallet?

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