The boys and girls of a high school club are trying to raise funds for celebrating a school function. The boys of the club are selling pencils for $2 a piece and need to raise at most $500. Write an inequality to express the number of pencils sold by the boys. ​

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The inequality that represents the number of pencils sold by the boys, x  ≥ 250

What is an Inequality ?

An inequality is a mathematical statement formed when two algebraic expression are equated using an inequality operator , < ,> ,<> etc.

It is given that

Total fund that needs to be raised is ≥ $500

Price of 1 pencil $2

Then let he sells x pencil

then inequality is

2x  ≥ 500

x  ≥ 250

this means the no. of pencils sold by the boy must be either equal to 250 or greater than 250.

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