You can spend up to $35 on a shopping trip.
a. You want to buy a shirt that costs $14. Write and solve
an inequality that represents the amount of money you
will have left if you buy the shirt.
b. You notice that the shirt is on sale for 30% off. How
does this change the inequality?
c. Do you have enough money to buy the shirt that is on
sale and a pair of pants that costs $23? Explain.
You are moving some of your
belongings into a storage facility.
a. Write and solve an inequality that
represents the number of boxes that you
can stack vertically in the storage unit.
27 in.
b. Can you stack 6 boxes vertically in the
storage unit? Explain.

A killer whale has eaten 75 pounds
of fish today. It needs to eat at least 140 pounds of
fish each day.
a. A bucket holds 15 pounds of fish. Write and
solve an inequality that represents how many
more buckets of fish the whale needs to eat.
b. Should the whale eat four or five more
buckets of fish? Explain.