Question

Omar has a gift card for $\$25$ at a clothing store. He wants to buy socks that cost $\$4$per pair. He also has a coupon for $\$5$ off his entire purchase. Omar wants to know how many pairs of socks he can buy. Write an inequality that represents the situation.

Answer 1

Write an inequality that represents the situation.

Consider that Omar buys $x$ number of pairs of shocks.

The cost per pair is $\$4$ and the amount of the gift card is $\$25$. Moreover, Omar has a coupon of $\$5$ on the entire purchase.

Write an inequality such that amount of purchase should be less than $\$25$ after applying the coupon:

$4x-5\le 25$

Hence, the required inequality to express the given situation is $4x-5\le 25$.