You have $10.00 to spend on tacos. Each taco costs $0.50. Write and solve an inequality that explain

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    You have $10.00 to spend on tacos. Each taco costs $0.50. Write and solve an inequality that explains how many tacos you can buy.

    Let's start with t as the number of tacos.

    We know that cost = price * quantity, so we have the following inequality for our taco spend:
    0.5t <= 10

    Divide each side of the inequality by 0.5 to isolate t:
    0.5t/0.5 <= 10/0.5

    Cancel the 0.5 on the left side and we get:
    t <= 20

     

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