Teddy is solving the following problem. James earns four hundred dollars a week plus five dollars and tips for each customer he serves. He is hoping to earn more than a thousand dollars this week. How many customers would he have to serve to meet his gold. Describe the solutions teddy writes the equality five x plus four hundred is greater than a thousand where exes the number of customer james serves
Teddy writes the inequality:
5x + 400 > 1000
In this inequality, x represents the number of customers James serves. Teddy is trying to find the number of customers James needs to serve in order to earn more than a thousand dollars.
To solve this inequality, Teddy will subtract 400 from both sides to isolate the term with x:
5x + 400 - 400 > 1000 - 400
5x > 600
Finally, Teddy will divide both sides of the inequality by 5 to solve for x:
5x/5 > 600/5
x > 120
Therefore, Teddy concludes that James would need to serve more than 120 customers in order to earn more than a thousand dollars.