A cell phone company charges $0.28 for each text message. Paula plans to spend no more than $5.00 on text messages next month. Write and solve an inequality to find how many text messages she will be able to send.
0.28x <- 5.00
x <- ?
To find out how many text messages Paula will be able to send, we need to set up an inequality using the given information.
Let's assume Paula sends x text messages.
The cost of sending each text message is $0.28, so the total cost of x text messages would be:
Total cost = $0.28 * x
Since Paula plans to spend no more than $5.00 on text messages next month, we can set up the inequality:
$0.28 * x ≤ $5.00
To solve this inequality, we divide both sides of the inequality by $0.28 to isolate x:
($0.28 * x) / $0.28 ≤ $5.00 / $0.28
Simplifying, we have:
x ≤ $5.00 / $0.28
x ≤ 17.86
Therefore, Paula will be able to send a maximum of 17 text messages next month in order to stay within her budget of $5.00.