Trent and three friends are ordering a pizza. they play to split the cost and they want to spend at most 3.50 per person. Write and solve an inequality to find the cost of the pizza they should order
To find the cost of the pizza they should order, we can set up an inequality based on their budget of at most $3.50 per person.
Let's assume the cost of the pizza is represented by "x" dollars. Since Trent and his three friends are splitting the cost equally, each person would pay (x/4) dollars.
According to the problem statement, each person should spend at most $3.50. So, we can set up the following inequality:
(x/4) ≤ 3.50
To solve this inequality for x, we can multiply both sides of the inequality by 4 to eliminate the fraction:
4 * (x/4) ≤ 4 * 3.50
This simplifies to:
x ≤ 14
Therefore, the cost of the pizza they should order is at most $14 to ensure that each person spends at most $3.50.