Wade wants to buy sweaters. He has $ 175 and each sweater costs $ 12.00. Write and solve an inequality to find how many sweaters he can buy and still have at least $ 55.

Amount of money in the hand of Wade = $175

Cost of each sweater = $12

Amount of money that needs to be in the hand of Wade after buying sweater = $55

Let us assume the number of sweaters that Wade can buy = x

Then

12x + 55 = 175

This is the inequality equation that has to be solved to find the number of sweaters that Wade can buy.

So

12x + 55 = 175

12x = 175 - 55

12x = 120

x = 120/12

= 10

So Wade can buy a total of 10 sweaters and still have $55 in his hand. I hope the procedure of doing this problem is clear to you.