Each game at a carnival cost $.50 or you can pay $15 and play on it unlimited amount of games right and solve inequality to find how many times you should play a game so that the unlimited gameplay is less expensive thenpaying each time

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Derrick Wu

9 May, 23:42

Each game at a carnival cost $.50 or you can pay $15 and play on it unlimited amount of games right and solve inequality to find how many times you should play a game so that the unlimited gameplay is less expensive thenpaying each time

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Tucker Delacruz · Answer 1

0.5x > 15, where x is the number of games played. Solve the inequality for x.

Divide both sides by 0.5

x > 30

So at 30 games, paying per game is the same as paying $15 straight up. For 31 games and on, the unlimited gameplay is cheaper.