Our middle school is having a fall carnival. Admission into the carnival is $3 and each game inside the carnival costs $.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 that can be played with $10.
Each game costs $0.25, so the total cost of playing x games is 0.25x.
The total cost including the admission fee is $10, so we have the inequality:
0.25x + 3 ≤ 10
Subtracting 3 from both sides:
0.25x ≤ 7
Dividing both sides by 0.25:
x ≤ 28
Therefore, the maximum number of games that can be played is 28.