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You have $5 for lunch. You bought a turkey sandwich for $2.25.
A. Write an inequality that represents how much more money you can spend.
B. Solve your inequality.
A. Let x be the amount of money you can spend.
The inequality would be:
x < 5 - 2.25
B. Simplify the inequality:
x < 2.75
Therefore, you can spend any amount less than $2.75 in order to stay within your budget of $5 for lunch.