Our middle school is having a fall carnival. Admission into the carnival is $3 and each game inside the carnival cost $.25. Write an inequality that represents the possible number of games that can be played having $10. What is the maximum number of games that can be played?
Let x be the number of games played.
Each game costs $0.25, so the total cost of the games is 0.25x.
The total amount of money available is $10, so the inequality that represents the possible number of games that can be played is 0.25x ≤ 10.
To find the maximum number of games that can be played, we solve the inequality for x.
0.25x ≤ 10
Dividing both sides of the inequality by 0.25, we get:
x ≤ 40
Therefore, the maximum number of games that can be played with $10 is 40.