a carnival charges $6 admission and $2.50 per ride. You have $50 to spend at the carnival. Which of

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    a carnival charges $6 admission and $2.50 per ride. You have $50 to spend at the carnival. Which of the following inequalities represents the situation if r is the number of rides?

    We set up our inequality using less than or equal to, since our cash is capped at $50. We use S for our :
    Cost per ride * r + Admission <= 50

    Plugging in our numbers, we get:
    2.50r + 6 <= 50

    Now, if the problem asks you to put this in terms of r, then we plug this inequality into our search engine and we get:
    r <= 17.6

    Since we cannot do fractional rides, we round down to 17:
    r <= 17
     

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